Well I didn’t know you could do that at any Canadian consulate office. I know here in Québec, for the French, it can get complicated. They don’t have offices everywhere and some have to drive a whole day just to get to the closest office.

Maybe anecdotally this worked well for you, but I doubt it might be as easy for someone from, say, Iran or Russia or some other contry where such offices don’t exist or are only in one location in the whole country.

I’m not saying it’s absolutely impossible, but I bet it is for many.