The Wagmatcook band council has been demanding an inquiry into John Simon's death.

Nova Scotia's justice minister is expected to meet with the First Nation calling for an inquiry into the shooting death of a member by an RCMP officer.

Ross Landry will meet with the Wagmatcook band council in January to hear its concerns about the death of John Andrew Simon, said acting justice minister Ramona Jennex.

"Once he reads the report and has met with the band council, then he would determine which course of action he will be taking," Jennex said Tuesday.

The band council contacted the Department of Justice on Tuesday, a day after the band was told the results of a police investigation into the Dec. 2, 2008, shooting. The report was not released to the council or the public.

Simon, 44, was shot and killed when RCMP officers responded to a 911 call about a domestic dispute at a home in Wagmatcook, in Cape Breton. Family members said he was drunk and suicidal.

The year-long investigation, conducted by Halifax Regional Police with the assistance of RCMP, concluded that the officer fired in self-defence and recommended no charges be laid.

The band council and Simon's family question why the officer entered the house in the first place. They're upset the officer won't be charged and don't like the RCMP's involvement in the investigation.

The RCMP said the rules surrounding these incidents require their co-operation.

The Wagmatcook band said it will file a complaint with the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, which looked into the 2007 death of Robert Dziekanski after Mounties at the Vancouver International Airport jolted him with a Taser multiple times.

The chairman of the commission, Paul Kennedy, criticized the force for investigating its own officers.

Meanwhile, the band is even more determined to find another organization to police its community, said Wagmatcook spokesman Brian Arbuthnot.

"The lack of transparency the RCMP showed [Monday] and the lack of respect in fact to the family and the band council, I think that underscores the lack of trust that exists here in the community today. My sense is that right now they are hanging on with a thin thread of hope to be the police service in this community after March 31," he said.

Arbuthnot said the budget available for policing will play a role in determining whether the RCMP continue in the community. He said the band will continue to review a proposal by Cape Breton Regional Police.