Controversial former Quebec City radio host Andre Arthur, the lone Independent MP heading to the House of Commons, says he has no problems working with any party.

"I can work with the devil if the matter is to bring forward what those people need and make it so they get the respect they need," Arthur, an outspoken federalist, told CTV's Canada AM.

"I will do a deal with anybody. I'm just there to represent them. I have no axe to grind. I have no political party line to obey."

Arthur, 62, finished comfortably ahead of Bloc Quebecois incumbent Guy Cote in the Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier riding, north of Quebec City.

Arthur, a long-time Quebec City institution, is known for more than three decades as a host at the city's top radio stations.

Known to his fans as King Arthur, his broadcast style is filled with provocative comments that have spawned many lawsuits, including some by former Quebec premiers Daniel Johnson and Lucien Bouchard.

His comments that African students at Universite Laval are the sons of plunderers and cannibals were among the reasons the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission stripped the radio station of its licence two years ago.

In fact, the CRTC decision played a factor in his decision to enter into politics, he said.

"It became quite evident to me we were living in a kind of country where words spoken on the air misrepresented by quotes that are done out of context could bring somebody much pain and some owner the loss of his station in a country where tribunals, courts, should be deciding what's right or wrong," as opposed to bureaucrats "answering to a political party," Arthur charged.

Arthur applauded Stephen Harper's earlier criticism of the CRTC ruling, but added the prime minister-designate would now have the opportunity to "bring this story to an end."

"He could do that at the first meeting of his new cabinet," he said.

"Then we'll see if those were just words of a politician or the words of somebody that was concerned."

The station's new owners did not renew Arthur's contract after he signed off on his final show before Christmas.

Arthur says he has no intention of softening his style as a parliamentarian, but he also has no plans to make it a lifelong career.

"I will hope that I'm a temporary Member of Parliament for one term," he said.

"And that after that, the political parties will give those people that elected me the respect they expected and then I won't be needed after that."