QUEBEC CITY: Canada's government said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) that Pope Francis' apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the North American country's church-run residential schools didn't go far enough, suggesting that reconciliation over the fraught history is still very much a work in progress.

The official government reaction came as Francis arrived in Quebec City for meetings with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor-General Mary Simon at her residence, the hilltop Citadelle fortress, on the second leg of Francis' weeklong visit to Canada.