Hello Sandy,
Yes, I did. I applied in November 2006 and had my Permanent Resident Visum in May 2007. FAST!!
The programme works well either with a job offer or with a business plan (you do require some funds however for that).
The Business programme is - as far as I know - the only FREE one in Canada and can speed up things considerably especially when having to go through countries with notorious back log - like Belgium and France (I am from Belgium originally).
Hope this helps,
Fanny