After 139 days of hearings and 134 witnesses, the Muskrat Falls Inquiry has finished public hearings. Mel Cappe of the University of Toronto was the final witness yesterday. he told the inquiry that it is not okay for cabinet ministers to be told that the less written, the better.

There were numerous instances of where records which Justice Richard LeBlanc felt would be useful to the inquiry had not been kept.

LeBlanc says the Commission has received close to 6-million documents, 115 of which were declared confidential exhibits.

He said in his wrap up yesterday afternoon that getting to this point has not been easy.

He says there has been a lot of work done within the Commission, and that counsel for all of the parties has been very cooperative with him and staff.