I read that they were processing 14 000 CEC VS 600 FSW per month?
Anyway it is just a matter of management of those applications. The agents just process what we tell them to process, and apparently we ask them to process way more CeC than FSW.
Why you may ask? I personally think that statistically speaking
1. Cec applicants are in the country
2. they are working and already well integrated / paying taxes in the country
3. Cec are young and willing to work jobs that Canada is craving for (low paying jobs in service for example)
You will tell me that you are in this case, they know it, they should process my case, but that s where it doesn t matter if we just look through the lense of statistics. Let s face the facts, we are nothing for Canada but a number, a meatball needed to sustain their economy. And knowing that IRCC is shit to deal with data or to distribute those applications, I am sure they just asked the VO to « process XX CEC and XX FSW » based on a few stats that would respond the most to their needs.
my little theory