)[6] The following year, Caron criticized the Parizeau government for holding secret negotiations to integrate federal Canadian civil servants into a sovereign Quebec.
[8] A reconciliation was later reached, and Caron appeared at a press conference with government minister Pauline Marois as she announced an agreement in principle on the matter shortly before the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty.
[10] Caron later took part in several high-profile negotiations with the government of Lucien Bouchard (Parizeau's successor as PQ leader and premier), who attempted to balance the provincial budget by a wage rollback in the civil service.
[12] The SPGQ did not support any party in the 1998 provincial election, although Caron strongly opposed the Action démocratique du Québec's proposal to reduce the size of the civil service.
In the 1980 Canadian federal election, a candidate named Robert Caron ran for the New Democratic Party in the riding of Louis-Hébert, near Quebec City.
Caron was president of Rassemblement populaire, a municipal political party in Quebec City, in the early 1990s.