It is extremely harder than it appears, in order to be considered you must prove why canadian citizenship is absolutely needed such as you are getting government job that required secrete clearance that if you are not a citizen you will be disqualified, there is very rare cases like this, for example if you are already working on non secrete job for government and then being considered for another one that requires secrete clearance. In 99.999999% of the cases, request for expedite is denied as otherwise most people will try to jump queue, only very exceptional situations go through
I Extremely Agree to deerestlovelybear, We have Requested to have my Wife's Citizenship Application Processed Urgently,because Their passport had expired,And My Mother in Law is Currently dealing with a Very serious illness, But they said They won't process the Application Urgently Because They're can apply for their passport in their Current nationality... Too sad... they Don't accommodate this...