True! Things are getting back to normal and 50 ppl are allowed in indoor settings.
I thinks they are waiting for end of emergency by provinces so they can start, (which is not going to happen any time soon till 2021)
There is also the matter of inter-departmental cooperation so unless all the cogs in the machine are capable of handling their end of the process, things are going to be a bit hobbled. It's why there are oaths going on, but no tests, citizenship certificates but until very recently, the passport office was still closed.
In my current position, I work with folks in the manufacturing sector. Almost all of them had to shut down immediately. But something that isn't commonly known is that when you shut down multiple processing lines that produce goods at volumes like hundreds of thousands of units a day (be it making car parts or aluminium cans) is that it takes time shut down properly (operations needs X amount of lead time, maintenance needs to be involved). As you can expect, it takes a hell of a lot of time to start things correctly because there are so many individual sub-components and sub-systems to a line and it's not a matter of flipping a switch. Even if we assume the government had executed emergency shutdown plans that they had internally prepared (and it is very likely they did,
Disaster Recovery Plans are normal for any administrative branch), they are very likely following recovery phases that rely on specific milestones to kick back in.
With a similar analogy, it is clear that all the systems and associated sub-systems for application processing are slowly coming back online and the machine is 'warming up', as it were. Unfortunately, the DRPs (referenced earlier) are department-specific, not process-specific, i.e. IRCC, CSIS, CBSA, CPC's, etc. will all have individual strategies that tie into a greater administrative piece.As a result, real work doesn't begin until other portions of the system (CBSA, CSIS, Logistics and other departments within the CPC's) come online to a certain extent as well - each of these departments might have different priorities when coming back online as well. CSIS might have been (and most likely, has been) fully functional this entire time (seeing as it is Canada's security apparatus), but hasn't really been focusing on immigration and background verification matters (seeing as the IRCC was closed) and may have redirected resources to other competing priorities.
This entire situation has been a bit of a mess (made worse by a lack of any public facing communications, but it is important that the government recognize this as an opportunity to improve the system which is where the vox populi matters.
