Last night in Quebec City, about 100 rather vocal and pushy public sector workers made their way into a Liberal campaign office in the riding of Vanier.

They blared electronic noisemakers and plastered the windows with stickers.

Jean Charest missed the whole thing – showing up half an hour after the last of the Transport Quebec workers had gone back to their orange school bus to drive off into the night.

My colleague from the Montreal Gazette astutely noticed there had also been orange school buses the previous night at a massive rally in Laval.

But that time they were filled with seniors and Liberal supporters, ready to wave their posters and proudly pin their red "L’économie d’abord, OUI" buttons on their lapels and blouses.

Seems a lot of people show up to listen to Jean Charest speak. But some days he’s more reluctant to meet with them.

Today, the same SFPQ union members once again rolled up in their oranges buses in Lévis. Police counted six buses, which would represent about 200 people.

Trouble is, Charest was speaking in front of the National Assembly when they pulled up. And they never did get to confront him personally for giving work they say belongs to them to sub-contractors.

Instead Charest pulled up in an unmarked van at the Convention Centre in Lévis to meet with mayors gathered for a meeting of the UMQ, the Union of Municipalities.

The red, white and blue "Economy First’"bus acted as a decoy at a separate entrance.

And Charest took an underground tunnel to see the people he wanted to see, and avoid the ones he’d rather not.