 He is best known for controversial remarks he made during the 2007 Quebec election campaign, when he interviewed Lac-Saint-Jean Parti Québécois candidate Alexandre Cloutier on February 19, 2007.Sylvain Gaudreault, the PQ candidate in the neighbouring riding to Cloutier's, and André Boisclair, the Parti Québécois' leader during the election campaign, are both openly gay.During the interview, Champagne asked Cloutier,

"When you show up during the campaign, listen, aren’t you going to face the question, "Is the Parti Québécois a club of fags?""