The five primary mayoral candidates debated on Wednesday evening on City TV.

Rob Ford said by far the most untrue things. We did not hear John Tory say anything untrue, other than when he used a 2013 figure for youth unemployment, 18 per cent, in criticizing Ford over the economy. The latest figure, 23 per cent, has not yet been publicly released, and Tory surely would have used it had he been aware of it.

Here are the exaggerations and false and misleading statements we caught the candidates uttering.

Rob Ford

1) “I said I was going to build a subway. People can talk about building it; we have built a subway in Scarborough.”

False. The approved Scarborough subway extension has not been built. In fact, construction has not begun. The subway may not actually be fully “built” until 2023 .

2) “LRTs cause congestion. You look at St. Clair; it’s a complete nightmare.”

Misleading. Whatever one thinks of the state of St. Clair Ave., which many believe is thriving , its dedicated streetcar right-of-way is not comparable to the Scarborough LRT proposal Ford was discussing. The Scarborough LRT would run in its own corridor off the street, so it would not cause congestion any more than the current Scarborough RT does. And it would be true light rail, unlike the streetcars on St. Clair.

3) On the Scarborough subway tax: “People are paying $5 per household.”

False. People are paying about $12 per household this year, when the tax levy is only a 0.5 per cent increase. When it rises to a 1.6 per cent increase in 2016, the annual payment will be about $40 per year , for about 30 years.

4) When Chow asked about cuts to TTC bus service: “I haven’t cut the TTC.” “I have not cut one red cent of the TTC.”

Misleading. Ford can argue that the TTC board made the bus cuts, not him. But the cuts , to service on dozens of routes, were made to keep the TTC in line with his administration’s budget allocation.

5) “Saved a billion dollars in four years.”

False, as the Star explained on several occasions. As Ford says, city officials say something similar — that more than $900 million of savings have been found — but many of these “savings” actually consist of service cuts, user-fee hikes that came out of taxpayers’ pockets, or phantom “efficiencies” that did not save the city money at all. And he does not count the costs of his decisions, only savings.

6) “Even Daniel Dale, believe it or not, from the Toronto Star, said I had better attendance than David Miller — and you and you and you.”

Partly true but partly false. A Star story indeed said that Ford’s attendance as of November 2013 was better than Stintz’s this term and Miller over the last two years of Miller’s term. But it said nothing about the other “you” and “you,” Chow and Soknacki, who were not on council when it was published. (Ford said he would happily put his attendance record up against theirs; city record-keeping from before 2006 makes it hard to figure out who is right.)

7) “Created 57,000 jobs in the last three years.”

False. At one point, last year, this “57,000 jobs” claim was accurate — if you simply counted the difference between the number of people employed in the city when Ford took office in December 2010 and the number of people employed in late 2013. But employment has since taken a nosedive, and the number of people employed has fallen by about 50,000 — so, according to the latest numbers, Ford has “created” about 6,000 jobs during his term. If you count only the “last three years,” from February 2011 to February 2014, it’s about 4,000 — from 1,281,000 to 1,285,000 people employed.

8) “We haven’t had one union strike.”

False. There was an 11-day library workers’ strike in 2012.

9) “A hundred and eighty cranes in the sky right now.”

False. Ford uses “number of cranes in the sky” as an illustration of the number of buildings under construction. While that number was 189 in June 2012, when Ford said “189 cranes in the skies,” it has since dropped significantly, to 111 as of January.

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Olivia Chow

1) On Scarborough subway funding: “What federal money?...The city hasn’t even put in an application.”

Misleading. Chow, says candidate and former TTC chair Karen Stintz, is correct that the city hasn’t yet submitted its formal application to the federal Building Canada Fund. But the federal government has said privately and publicly that it is setting aside $660 million for the project, so it is misleading to suggest that Ford, Stintz and Tory are imagining a federal contribution.

2) “I made 911 service speak in 140 languages.”

Exaggeration. Chow appeared to be taking sole credit for the introduction of instant interpretation on the 911 line. She indeed pushed for this service while serving as a school trustee, but the police actually created it, in late 1991. She can claim partial credit, but not full.

Karen Stintz

1) To John Tory: “As chair of CivicAction, you advocated for about $34 billion worth of transit taxes that included a commercial parking levy, a vehicle registration fee, a utility bill levy, an employee payroll tax, and there’s more.”

Misleading. Tory was indeed a vocal advocate of the need for transit taxes in general, but he did not advocate those particular tools. “CivicAction has said we must develop means to pay for transit, whatever they may be,” he said in a speech in April.

2) “I’ve announced my plan for how to fund the Downtown Relief Line.”

Exaggeration. Stintz has announced that she would sell a majority stake in Toronto Hydro and put the proceeds toward the subway line. But the sale proceeds are likely to be significantly less than $1 billion, and the line could cost more than $7 billion, so Stintz has a way to go before she can claim she has a true funding plan.

David Soknacki

1) “Last time, Rob Ford pledged not to raise taxes.”

False. Ford didn’t make such a promise. When he said at his first post-election news conference that he would freeze property taxes in 2011, it came as a surprise.

2) “I’ll cancel the three-stop subway extension proposed by Rob Ford that requires the largest tax increase in the city’s history: $1 billion.”

Misleading. The approved city property tax hike will cost $745 million, while a development charge hike will raise $165 million. Soknacki’s campaign makes a detailed and articulate case for why development charges qualify as taxes, but even still, that adds up to $910 million, not $1 billion.