Foreign hello, and welcome to the Curator on Monocle Radio with me, Carlotta Rebelo.
Over the next 60 minutes, we'll be bringing you some of the very best interviews and reports from the past week of coverage on Monocle Radio with highlights from our studios here at Midori House and also from around the world.
This week, every morning I've woken up as prime minister.
I've been inspired by the resilience, the generosity and the determination of Canadians after nearly a decade in power, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns.
Then we talk about security in Switzerland and Europe, hear about the first woman set to lead a major Vatican office, and get the latest from the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas.
Plus, during that process, we realized that that was a way to kind of pay homage to the book, to not make the film its sort of lesser companion, but to try to see what the medium truly had to offer.
We talk about the new film Nickel Boys, take in the sounds of Tokyo and recap the Golden Globes.
All that and much, much more coming up over the next hour right here on the Curator with me, Carlotta Rebelo.
We begin today with one of the main news stories of the week.
After more than nine years as Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau announced his resignation in Ottawa.
Now the process to suc as leader of Canada's Liberal Party and as prime minister is getting underway.
Monaco's correspondent in Toronto, Thomas Lewis, assesses the outgoing prime minister's time in office and began by taking us back to election night.
On election night in Canada back in 2015, Justin Trudeau took to the stage at his victorious party's election night rally and declared that sunny ways, my friends, sunny ways lay ahead for the country that had just voted in Canada's centre left Liberal Party in a landslide.
This, he went on, is what positive politics can do.
And at the beginning, Trudeau's personable approach to leadership was undeniably refreshing.
It indeed felt as though the curtains had been thrown open to let the daylight back in.
Vows to boost immigration, to diversify and grow the national economy, and to reassert Canada's role in the world.
All policies that were cheered on at the time fuelled that upswing, both in the national mood and in how others viewed the country from afar.
Trudeau's own obvious enjoyment of the spotlight, no doubt honed by his previous career as a high school drama teacher, was also put to use in a variety of ways.
He movingly greeted in person the first groups of refugees of Syria's civil war as they arrived at Toronto's international airport in late 2015, and he also posed for the cameras, cuddling a pair of pandas at Canada's National Zoo for good measure.