Canadian Immigration Blues

Me and my wife are Canadian citizens. We went thru all of the time consuming and expensive adoption process in BC. We have been aproved after almost 1 year as adoptive parents for International Adoption by Family Services of Vancouver. We already adopted a child from Bulgaria, locally, because we are Bulgarian Citizens. Bulgaria is a member of the Hague Convention for Children Adoption, same as Canada. We want to bring our child to Canada. CIC wants us to fill up 2 applications. The first is...to "prove with 3 notary certified documents" that I am a canadian Citizen. And pay on top of that another $100 fee. How strange is that, considering that I and my wife have canadian citizenship for years now, and the same CIC issued us the citizenship? Maybe they lost their archive? Anyway, I did that and today I received the confirmation that CIC received my application and they say it will take 27 WEEKS or more for them to confirm ONLY that I am a canadian citizen???? Well done, Canada Imigration! Can anyone make sense and tell me what am I missing here? Proudly Canadian. Adoptive parent.