Good article on how Health Canada is so backed up. However, I found this part encouraging:

But Sara Lauer said of the 858 received as of May 20, 370 were returned as incomplete, 149 were refused and 30 withdrawn.

That still leaves 289 applications stacked in the department's inbox for review, which is time-consuming.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/touch/story.html?id=9897082