And ya...you will need to visit their office and sign a form which will give them authority to call CIC on your behalf. So just calling the MP won't help.I just googled it. Use this link to search for it - not sure I can share links here...but the webpage will say - Find a Member of Parliament on the website ourcommons "https://www.ourcommons.ca/parliamentarians/en/constituencies/FindMP"
Normally, you wouldn't get to talk directly to MP but their assistants and they call CIC on your behalf to check what's going on. Ask them to call after your 1 year is passed from application date so CIC doesn't have excuse of saying - 'oh..it's still within 1 year processing time". I will update once I do that and what CIC says. Good luck to all of us.