“All it takes is one column to pull you in. Rich in humour, overflowing in ideas. This is Jaime Watt at his candid best.”

The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, PC, CC, GOQ ―18th prime minister of Canada

Just as they do on those television cooking contests when the bell rings and the contestants’ hands go up, at four o’clock on Friday afternoon, the column is filed―ready or not―to the columnist’s horror, discomfort, or self-satisfaction.

Regardless, one exigent and unrelenting thought remains: what you wish you’d said. Such is the life of a weekly newspaper columnist. Unable to ignore the urge any longer, in What I Wish I Said: Confessions of a Columnist, author Jaime Watt has collected forty-eight of his most eye-opening, illuminating, and provocative Toronto Star columns and with humour, candour, and wit, he’s responded to each with what he wishes he’d said.