If you take a look at the "Applications summary" in the Outland August 2016 spreadsheet, there's a bit less than one third (1/3) of us, August applicants, still waiting for SA.
What is really frustrating for my wife and myself, is like what BCgirl_inNL put it, we thought we have a very straight forward case, a "crystal clear" situation too: we've been married and living together for almost a decade, and have two kids together as well.
Now we're turning really paranoiac and that is causing a lot of "maybes" and uncertainties in our life right now. The joy of filing our case and discussing our plans of moving back to Canada with the kids are now overturned by this unbearable waiting game and with existential questioning.
And for the record, even if we get our federal SA we still have to apply for Quebec SA as well. Holly cow!
BTW, I sent an email yesterday (Monday) morning to CIC and I'm still waiting for a reply.