No, we were told by a lawyer that we couldn't apply without the police certificate so we waited 4 months for that to come in and then had to update all the forms. The irony being that CIC lost that police certificate anyway so we had to get a new one lol. We were also told (I think incorrectly) that I had to get my citizenship certificate updated with my new name (married name) before I could get an updated passport and that took 6 months to come in too, and of course, update all the forms again. We were also told outland would take longer, which is totally incorrect as I'm seeing US outland processed in 4 months. So couldve had PR in 2015!!!
End of April!

That might as well be 2025
Did you notice a few June 2016 inland applicants getting DM?! I saw a few on the fb group