The federal government will launch a public inquiry into former prime minister Brian Mulroney's business dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday. But Harper said the inquiry will only be held after a federal ethics committee finishes its own hearings into the hundreds of thousands of dollars Mulroney received from Schreiber, a German-Canadian businessman, in the 1990s. The ethics committee has not said when it will wrap up its probe, but it likely won't be for several months. Opposition MPs were quick to accuse Harper of purposely delaying an inquiry that could be damaging to his government. The opposition speculated that Harper is expecting that a federal election will be called in the interim, derailing the inquiry altogether. "It's a minority government. He knows he'll get to an election before this inquiry ever gets on its feet," said Nova Scotia Liberal Robert Thibault. But Harper said it is important to let the committee...