If you believe Canadian healthcare is good, good for you. Like I said not everyone has the same story. So learn to empathize. Everything is based on data. I don't want to wait for surgery/treatment where it gets so worse that I am at the point of no return medically. I personally had to wait for 5 hours in ER before anyone came and addressed me. Healthcare is not just having good facilities it also means better accessibility. Yes, facilities are good but accessibility is crap here. 1 month to just wait for primary care Dr? in which world this is good, by the time one gets access to a PC problem gets worse.
How many people have updated the tracker? Where are you getting that info from, for those people who are updating the tracker check compare paper vs online applications?
Rest about citizenship time. Data tells the truth, paper application is definitely faster. Just take the data and do the mean and median. At the same time you're also saying IRCC is telling lies by telling 27 months on average, where is that info coming from?
I am not going to debate healthcare here (although I have my thoughts, and they match yours in some respects), as that's besides the point. I already demonstrated that one can always leave the country to obtain healthcare elsewhere using their home passport and that Canadian citizenship makes no difference. I also already pointed out that staying abroad for 3 years is not a problem... Again, I live in the states...
I am getting my info from the spreadsheets. It's safe to assume that a roughly equal number of people with online/ paper applications have not updated the tracker, so over all one would be able to compare the the progress of the two from the spreadsheets.
Data is only saying that paper applicants are getting test invites faster, not necessarily that they are getting oath faster. I am not denying that it may end up being the case, but looking at applicants prior to one year, when one looks at overall timeline (from application date to oath) it appears to be quite similar.
I am not saying that IRCC is lying to us with respect to the 27 months, but I suspect this is an average all pending applications, and there are a few applications with very long timelines that skew the mean. Note that this is NOT a projected number, it is a data point of applications processed so far. If you look at the spreadsheets (2020 applicants and early 2021), most are processed within 15 months.
To sum up, so far I do not see definitive data that online is overall slower than paper, so getting worked up about it, seems premature.
Regarding "learning to empathise," I always try to... immigration can be immensely stressful, especially for those trying desperately to escape dangerous or economically tough situations, or those separated from their love ones. As people who are already PRs, I see myself and others in my shoes as being privileged, and needing to empathise with those less fortunate who are yet to escape those living conditions, and reunite with their family. I have been an expat/ immigrant my entire live, having lived in a number of countries, so immigration proceedings has been a constant in my life. I also roam in circles where immigration is always in the background. I can say, this particular one - applying for Canadian citizenship I have found to be least stressful, even a cakewalk. That being said, I totally get the excitement of becoming a citizen, of gaining this well deserved benefit which we have earned. The eagerness to participate in the democratic process and do your part in improving the country....So I understand the frustration of a long wait. But I would not call it stressful or difficult (unless it is said lightly).
I am going to stop engaging with you here. I am trying to respond logically to every point you are bringing up, but am finding you keep ignoring what I am saying, and pushing a rhetoric, making me having to repeat myself. it is getting tiring for me, and maybe for many of the readers here.