May be we all understood it wrong that 8000 AOR will be issued under CEC program...
May be they count all applications that they touch is under 8k CAP (Accepted + Returned + Rejected), if thats the case then reaching 8k cap by now is not surprising...
Canadian Experience Class – Number of applications accepted
As of May 1, 2014, there is an overall cap of 8,000 for new Canadian Experience Class applications. There are also sub-caps of 200 for each National Occupational Classification B applications.
For all other NOC B occupations, we will accept up to 200 applications per occupation. Once we reach the cap, we will no longer accept applications for that occupation. Once CIC receives 8,000 complete CEC applications, we will no longer accept any application for processing, even if there are occupational caps that have not been filled.