I SUBMITTED PHOTO Multi-award winning investigative journalist Stevie Cameron investigative team for The National Post, Cameron has recently concentrated more on books. She was founding editor ot the national magazine Elm Street, but has resigned that position to focus on books, Her newest book, The Last Amigo: Karlheinz Shreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal, written with Harvey Cashore, exposes the airbus scandal, Its about a German Canadian paying bribes on the airbus deal with the Mulroney government. The scandal ignited the biggest political crisis since the Second World War, It was very exciting to be involved with a story about international scandal and an amazing experience, said Cameron. Cameron is also the author of Blue Trust: The Author, the Lawyer, his Wife and her Money about Bruce Vercher, a tax lawyer i whose clients included Mulroney, and tales of tax fraud, embezzlement and an affair. She also wrote Ottawa Inside and Out: Power Prestige and Scandal in he Nation's Capital, As an author, Cameron has written four self-described 'dangerous .books," With all of her books there have be no ie^al threats or letters. However, as a journalist with Maclean's or Jlie Globe and Mail, she got them ail the time, she said. Cameron attributes Canada's tough libel laws to inhibiting people to tell the truth. "In the States, you can write a story that you believe is true, and the other party has to prove it isn't. Here in Canada, the writer has to prove the story is true," she said Cameron deals with big issues, and big people. Conrad Black has made a habit of creating lawsuits, she said He sued Cameron for letting down a source in an article she wrote. However her source a Mountle wrote a letter stating he was not in anyway mistreated or misrepresented. Black refused io print the letter in any of the papers he owned, so The Globe and Mail did, said Cameron. The lawsuit was eventually dropped. Tm playing' in the very big leagues, where the players have very deep .pockets,7' she said. -Despite .lawsuits., and threats, Cameron said, '"You cam Deal : he day-to-day newspaper , « . , The better the newspaper the mcer vlie people ' Because her books are non-fiction and deal mth political scandal and liability, it's always hard to get people to talk, Cameron said, and you have to protect their identities. However, Canadians are quite feisty, and people will help more than you think. "Sometimes when I interview Canadians they ask what took you so long to come?" said Cameron. . -