Please, put your logical & imagination:
I applied regular service at Service Canada because I do not have proof of travel, and back then (late September), you had to have proof of travel to go to Passport Canada. Express service has been reliably fast even through the disastrous times, although stressful because people would usually receive their passports the night before their flights.
5 days is plenty of time for them to call a guarantor if they choose to do so for your application. Whether they will actually call and whether they would delay it if they don't reach your guarantor, one does not know. From the limited reports of experiences I have seen, they can call guarantor, some/all/none of your references, or none of the above. Not enough data to predict who will have guarantor/references called and who won't.
My friend, my character is build; never lies!
May be!
5 days are enough to inquire about the application. If they want they can call the guarantor and references between these 5 days. I am not an expert nor an employee of a passport office. I shared my opinion based on the posts i saw on the forum. I saw some of the post where they call the guarantor for urgent passport application.
Depends on which Service Canada. I know of a few people who got theirs in 2 weeks from Service Canada in Brampton. Meanwhile, I went to Service Canada in Ottawa on Sept 26 and still no progress.
