Stevie Cameron

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Stevie Cameron (born ca. 1945) is a Canadian investigative journalist and author. Formerly with the Globe and Mail newspaper and CBC Television's investigative news programme, the fifth estate, Cameron is best known for her 1995 book On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years, an exposé of alleged corruption in the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney which alleged that, as Prime Minister of Canada, Mulroney accepted "kickbacks" from Karlheinz Schreiber in what has become known as the Airbus affair.

Cameron became the focus of a campaign by Mulroney's defenders to discredit the allegations against him.

She has also been a contributing editor at Maclean's magazine, a monthly columnist and editor for Elm Street magazine, and a contributor to The Toronto Star, The Ottawa Citizen, the Southam News Service, Saturday Night magazine, the Financial Post, Chatelaine, Canadian Living and Homemakers.

In 2004, the Globe and Mail turned the tables on its former investigative reporter by running a series of articles revealing that Cameron had worked as a confidential informant for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police during its investigation of the Airbus affair. Cameron has vigorously denied the allegations which, if true, would compromise her credibility as a journalist [1]. In his 2004 book A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney, Stevie Cameron and the Public Trust, William Kaplan outlines the evidence that demonstrates Cameron's status as a confidential RCMP informant.

Cameron is also an elder with St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Toronto, heading up its "Out-of-the-Cold Program" aimed at assisting the homeless.

[edit] Publications include

On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years (1995)
Blue Trust: The Author, the Lawyer, His Wife and Her Money (1999)
Ottawa Inside Out (1990)
The Last Amigo: Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal (2001, with Harvey Cashore)