Toronto based co-chair of the Canadian Human Rights Campaign's push for same-sex spousal rights, which helped led to a bill giving same-sex partners spousal rights in Ontario. Watt has also been an avid political campaigner for both the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties - he helped shape Ontario Premier Mike Harris's "Common Sense Revolution" election campaign and helped get the Conservatives elected in Ontario in 1995; later he was a campaign worker for unsuccessful Canadian Alliance leadership candidate Tom Long.