First of all, the fact that we are abandoning judicial inquiries is one of the welcome aspects of Bill C-59.
Furthermore, it was a fiasco because it was the only time, following the very sad Air India incident, that those provisions were used. However, they were completely ineffective in the Air India trial. We know they did not produce the results desired by the police departments.
In addition, there was a problem with the way it was done: the accused and the media were not informed. The media accidentally learned at the time that a judicial inquiry was under way. If you read the summary of facts in the Air India affair judgment, you will see that this was not a glorious chapter in the history of Canadian law, particularly since it was a tragedy.