The Good Fight

"[B]y centering the French-Canadian perspective and focusing on the figure of Marcel Cadieux, The Good Fight enriches our understanding of Canadian international history in the mid-twentieth century."

Jean-Pierre Juneau:

"Une excellente biographie consacrée à un haut fonctionnaire francophone d’une grande valeur, d’une grande intégrité professionnelle, et dont la contribution fût marquante au service du Canada et qui, à certains égards, demeure toujours d’actualité."

Peter Boehm, Senate of Canada:

This excellent biography should be required reading for foreign policy practitioners and academics alike. Kelly has deeply mined his primary sources in both official languages and has offered up a narrative that convincingly challenges some existing precepts of this period in Canadian diplomatic history. He offers us a convincing portrait of one of the greats in Canadian public service. In his Marcel Cadieux we see a selfless diplomat of firm and fearless skill, as well as a Canadian and Quebecois patriot deeply devoted to national unity. Through Brendan Kelly’s rendering, we also see Cadieux as the epitome of the human, networked, and connected diplomat.

Robin Gendron:

"This is an excellent biography of one of Canada’s most important diplomats and civil servants during a pivotal period in Canada’s international affairs."

Greg Donaghy:
Kelly’s formidable biography – superbly researched, judiciously argued, and well written – is a guarantee that Cadieux will no longer be forgotten.

Bruce K. Ward:

"[An] absorbing political biography."

Michael Carroll, associate professor, Department of Humanities, MacEwan University:
Marcel Cadieux was arguably the most important francophone in the Department of External Affairs yet he is conspicuously absent from most studies of Canadian foreign relations. By highlighting the art of Cadieux’s diplomacy, Kelly’s book remedies this oversight while breaking new ground in our understanding of Ottawa–Quebec City relations and the inner workings of government.

Stephen Azzi, associate professor, Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management, Carleton University:
Brendan Kelly has produced a sensitive and insightful study that is not just a masterful biography of a major Canadian decision maker, but also an exploration of relations between English and French Canada, the evolution of the Canadian public service and diplomatic corps, and the development of Canadian foreign policy. In his exhaustive research, Kelly has made use of new sources that change our perspective on a crucial era in Canadian history. This is an important work.