Nova Scotia's justice minister is insisting he privately pushed Ottawa for a full federal-provincial public inquiry into the April mass shooting, but he alleged today that federal officials refused to endorse that kind of investigation. Then-Attorney General Mark Furey, left, fields a question as Bret Mitchellin, CEO of the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation, looks on at a news conference in Halifax, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan