Thanks GA90 for detailed analysis.
I am not getting few points.. If IRCC Is working on Nov -Dec 2016 applicants... There are hardly any CSQs might have been issued in 2016 becasue of the fact like only Cap-exempt were processed. I see from other forums that there were no checkilist issued for 10,000 applications they received in 2016 intake... Also seeing from other forum that there is delay in issueing CSQ for 2017 inland applicants.
In theory the applications received in QSWP 2017 should be less... I am not sure how may inland CSQ and paper based CSQs applied prior to 2016(before Mon-Project) were issued in 2017.
So May be MIDI and IRCC are trying to clear the backlog of applications of Nov-Dec 2016 and focus on 2017 applications ...
I see only 20 applications were submitted for Federal since April 2017 in the tracker spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11kdzo2tA_6HiILyuHtDsYtVajswDvHYTUiEFlFM1b28/edit#gid=736440819