are you aware that up until december 2015, CIC used to list processing times by visa office rather than residency? they even had data sets to show exact performance figures (apps in backlog, apps approved, apps pending, etc) over at their open data portal which i used to check regularly. their rationale for moving away from displaying stats by visa office is that they now have the ability to process applications at any visa office around the world in order to "maximize efficiency". yet oddly enough, sponsorship applications for pakistani families always seem to end up at LVO regardless of where the principal applicants are residing.
so with all that said, there's no arguing that the most significant factor in application processing time is the visa office, and that brings us to another question: what's the average processing time for LVO?