Thank you. I thought the interesting thing was that GCKEY account shows no change on any of the line items (most pending), except of course for the correspondence part below.
We had very little idea what to expect in terms of time frame going in. I had no concerns about the relationship part (long relationship, residing together, child together, etc), only about the security check and how long that would take. On the one hand, all family members have long-tenor Canadian visas (so presumably checks have been done before, at least superficially); but spouse's travel history is complicated and a few other minor factors.