The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) that consists of lawyers, judges, notaries, law teachers and students throughout Canada wanted the Federal Government to speed up the processing of applications for immigration. In late July, the chair of the immigration law section of the CBA, Mark Holthe wrote to Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino, asking to solve major disruptions in processing immigration applications. In the letter, Holthe clarified that there were four areas that the Government have to speed up the processing times.