For those of you watching at home, there really is an exceedingly large pile of documents here at the judicial inquiry into the business dealings between former prime minister Brian Mulroney and Karlheinz Schreiber.

As well as documents that have been tabled in relation to other witnesses, Schreiber's testimony comes with seven full binders. Three of them are those extra large binders, filled with hundreds of pages.

Rosemary Barton

To give you an idea, there are tabs ranging from one all the way up to 150 or more. And some of those tabs have sub-tabs with every letter of the alphabet.

For example, commission counsel will refer to Book 3, Tab 146-K, page 17, paragraph 5.

Reporters don't have these binders sitting handily beside them as the lawyers do, so we have to scribble down the information and double-check things on breaks or at lunch. Then we have to try to understand our notes while referring back to someone else's personal daytimers from 10 years ago with all their shorthand and scribbling.

The good news? You, too, can do it now. As of today, at least three of the binders will be posted on the Justice Jeffrey Oliphant commission's website. So, you too can look at what Schreiber did on December 17, 1994!

— Rosemary Barton