Pope Francis held a meeting with the main authorities of the country such as the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau.
The Holy Father arrived by car at the courtyard of the Citadel of Québec at 4:46 p.m., where he greeted Trudeau and the Governor General of Canada, Mary Simon.
The official band played the pontifical anthem and the anthem of Canada.
They then headed inside the Citadel, where the Holy Father met with Simon, and Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, met with Trudeau.
The Substitute for the Vatican Secretariat of State, Msgr. Edgar Peña Parra, the Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, and the Apostolic Nuncio to Canada, Msgr. Ivan Jurkovič, also participated in this meeting.
After these meetings, it was the Pope who spoke with Trudeau and Cardinal Parolin who met with Mary Simon.