The problem with mayoral candidate Doug Ford isn’t that he’s anti-Semitic.

It’s that what he says changes from day to day.

Doug Ford didn’t make a derogatory reference to Jews while in a drug or alcohol-induced stupor. His brother, Mayor Rob Ford, did.

But in defending himself from charges of anti-Semitism, Doug Ford said his wife was Jewish.

He said it unequivocally. He told it to our editorial board on Monday as well.

But the next day, in the face of a report questioning the claim, he said what he’d previously said was that his wife has “Jewish blood lines”.

But that’s not what he’d said. He’d said his wife was Jewish.

That’s what concerns us about Ford — not that he’s an anti-Semite. We don’t think he is.

It’s that what he says changes from day to day, or just doesn’t add up.

Take public transit.

It’s true, as Ford told our editorial board, that mayoral opponent John Tory’s SmartTrack plan has holes in it.

While Tory bills it as using existing Go Transit tracks, it will require new tracks and tunnelling, some of which may not be feasible and which could well raise its $8 billion price tag.

But Ford is promising 32 km of new subway lines at a cost of $9 billion, while keeping property tax hikes “below the rate of inflation”.

How, given that the Scarborough subway alone, one of four projects he’s talking about, will require a dedicated, phased-in property tax hike of 1.6% (before paying for any other city services), for three decades?

Ford promises to cut the Land Transfer Tax by 60% over four years, a $200 million annual revenue loss for the city by year four, without cutting services.

He says he’ll achieve this by contracting out garbage collection east of Yonge Street and implementing the city’s shared services agreement.

But contracting out garbage only saves $90 million over seven years and the shared services agreement at best $65 million, over a multi-year, phase-in period.

Ford says he’ll find additional savings elsewhere in the budget to fulfill his “no cuts” promise, but it’s like a lot of what he says.

Long on promises, short on details.