Prime Minister François Legault and his wife will have a private audience with Pope Francis.

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The meeting will take place in Quebec on Friday. This is a “private audience,” insists the Prime Minister’s Office.

The place and time of the meeting were not disclosed to the media.

The Prime Minister's spokesperson explains that the two men will discuss the follow-up to be given to the visit of the Pope from Canada, who has come to apologize to the Aboriginal peoples for the abuses perpetrated by Catholic representatives in the residential schools.

In 2019, as part of the debate on the prohibition of religious symbols among certain state employees, François Legault confided that he was a non-practicing Catholic.

"I want God to exist. I think otherwise life would be unfair. I think of the people who had misery, who died young... Me, I wish that God exists, but I have no confirmation, "he explained to journalists in the corridors of the National Assembly. .