You are most likely going to have to either rewrite or to go to the RCMP to replace your application or test result in order to get it.
I have been waiting exactly 11 month's for mine to come ,I recieved a phone call from a firearm's officer telling me to be patient and I should recieve my PAL in the mail early in the new year.
This system is so screwed up that no-one will take any responsability
for answering any of your question's .
My friend sold some firearm's a week or so ago and he had all of the information he needed from the buyer and when he called the firearm's 1-800 number they refused to answer whether the PAL was valid saying that it was nun of his business {I would think it was his business since he was to sell his firearm's to him }Theyrefused to do anything unless the purchaser was on hand to answer thier question's,then they hung up and called an hour later to tell him that the PAL was valid and he could release the firearm's .
This took severel hour's to accomplish and severel hour's to get through the phone lines.