According to my MP's office, they're just working on it now. It was transferred to Mex in February, I just got aor2 in Sept
I should give an update to this so as not to discourage others. A couple weeks after hearing by phone from the MP's office that my application would take another year I went into the office directly to speak with them and discovered that
A) they had miscommunicated - it would not take another year necessarily, rather it would be in processing for longer than the standard year (I already knew that)
B) they hadn't spoken to anyone in the VO, just some office in Ottawa
C) the info they had about my file was suspiciously similar to that which was in the Gckey portal
In short, I had no reason to believe that my MP had any more idea about the true state of my application than I did.
Went home, 2 hours later got PPR.
Total time waiting from application receipt to PPR was 375 days.