Hmmn. I imagine that these days are very tough for you considering the rain of PPRs from many VOs. NdVO, Sydney, Ottawa... Dealing with this Montreal wait is not for the faint hearted. Someone said that an agent told him that VOs too have deadlines to meet and so they are working hard. If they truly have supervisors and a performance evaluation mechanism put in place then Montreal for one should be reprimanded especially since other VOs are doing all they can to be close to their yearly target. I don't know what we must have done to deserve this horrible VO but I know that we will all smile eventually and look back on these days. I found that I started thinking negative so I am consciously feeding my thoughts with postive stuffs so I don't break down. Please do same
Personally I don't believe in concept of being positive or negative in this particular situation. I have nothing against it but these are concepts to make oneself believe or rationalize things. It may work for many but it doesn't work for me. I believe in facts. When my friends got their PPR they told me be positive yours should come in 3/4 months also. But what is being positive has got to do with it. I called figured out my VO. Then went on a journey to find as many cases as possible to see what is the processing time for Montreal. And no amount of being positive would have changed processing times of Montreal.
I do believe in being positive when there is some action which is in my control. If I were giving an exam which had 10 chapters. And I had time to cover only 8, I can be positive and hope less questions come from remaining two chapters or be positive about not getting anything wrong in the 8 chapters that I did cover. The situation we are in has absolutely nothing in my (or anyone of us) control.
Also I don't consider what we are doing here as "patience" as well. Patience is refraining from doing something when you have the ability to do it.
That is why I appreciate you taking the lead and creating a petition. Will it work? We don't know (or may be we know deep down). But that is action and for me that is more important than concepts like "being positive" or "patience" because both of those don't apply in our situation (my opinion).