The law hasn't changed. Approval times haven't changed. Each gun is examined on it's own with no timeline given.
Doesn't matter what government is in if the law hasn't changed.
The 958 took a year and a half. The Modern Varmint took about a year, after years of waiting on the Hunter. The Varmint is just a shrunk Hunter. Both the varmint and the 958 are variants of existing guns. The Hunter and the vz58.
The RPD is not. And it is a belt fed, vs mag fed. Those two points alone make the timeline wait completely different than the previous two.
Not logical, but different.
As of today, there is no published FRT entry for the RPD. I looked. The RCMP don't say anything to anyone, not even the importer, until they are pretty much finished.