If indeed Brian Mulroney brings his family on Thursday to watch him field questions at the Ethics Committee investigation into his dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber, don't expect Mila and the kids to be front and centre (or as the NDP has put it 'lined up within the camera shot.')

Committee chair Paul Szabo says he'll make room for the Mulroney clan and ensure that they have a good view of the action, but they'll get no special treatment.

Best seats in the house will still go to reporters at their usual front row tables. Says Szabo, the Mulroneys will be provided seats somewhere among those green chairs behind reporters, likely toward the centre.

"They'll be in some camera shots, but not all," he says.

Unless, that is, they get something better from scalpers, who'll no doubt be working the sidewalks outside.