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The Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente likely said it best. In her column last Tuesday, headlined, "Airbus monster never dies," Wente commented on journalist Stevie Cameron, a noted Brian Mulroney nemesis, who found her picture plastered all over the front page of the Saturday Globe, accused of being a police informant -- a huge journalistic no-no, which Cameron indelicately dismisses as "absolute horseshit."
"Who else looks bad? Well, the RCMP looks (not for the first time) like the Keystone Kops. So mesmerized were they by Ms. Cameron's overheated conspiracy theories that when probing Air Canada's decision to buy Airbus planes, they never bothered asking anybody at Air Canada if they had happened to notice any signs of undue influence. (They hadn't.) Given that record, it's all too easy to believe the Mounties launched their entire investigation on Ms. Cameron's say-so. The government's lawyers look bad, too. Not one had the wit to ask Mr. Mulroney point blank if he'd ever gotten money from Mr. [Karlheinz Schreiber]."