i just asked my agent, she said the canadian consulate need to collect passport for issuance immigrate visa. are your agent mean copy all passport pages for the application use? because i did copied all my passport pages for application.
i keep check my online status, they didn't update anything, just few days ago, my agent forward CIC email to me to ask me submit passport. and i just checked my online status, they don't even mention asked me to submit passport, they just updated that sent email to me in Mar (AOR2).
i didn't wait cic to ask for police cert, i just print aor2 to hk police to issue the cert. i asked my agent before go to issue the cert, she said this is no harm to do it before cic request.
actually i issued flight tickets in Nov before cic ask me to send passport. so now i'm just on time....... wishes you same as me!!! i submitted application in mid of dec 2014. and ask for passport in end of Aug 2015