Rob Ford promised he will be the mayor for 14 more years at the fourth and final debate in the first week of the rejuvenated election campaign .

“Rob Ford has never, ever given up and will never give up,” Ford told an Etobicoke crowd of more than 100 seniors about himself Friday night. He earlier said it was his late father, Doug Ford Sr. who told him never to quit.

“I will never quit being the best mayor this city ever has. And I'm very, very proud to say that. And I'm going to continue to be mayor for the next, not only four years, another 14 years.”

The humid room at the local Royal Canadian Legion branch gasped amongst a smattering of applause.

The mayor later explained he picked 14 years — despite each council term being four years long — because, he said, he promised to be in politics for 30 years when he started at age 30. Ford turned 45 this year while he was in rehab seeking treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.

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The majority of Friday night's event, hosted by senior advocacy group CARP, had the top candidates again sparring over transit . Unlike the debate Thursday — which had Ford and John Tory exchanging heated words on almost every topic — Tory and Olivia Chow instead went after each other's funding plans.

Tory questioned how Chow plans to pay for a downtown relief line, which she says is a top priority. Chow explained she will use a one percentage point hike in the land transfer tax for homes over $2 million to pay for $200 million in engineering studies needed before construction can begin.

But when pressed by Tory on how she would pay for the city's share of the actual subway construction, Chow avoided directly answering. She said it's still unclear how much the province and federal government might contribute.

“Building a subway takes years,” Chow said, her voice rising, as she responded to Tory's attack. “Maybe you don't have the experience of building things. I have.”

Chow spokesperson Brad Honywill later explained by email that the city's portion for the first phase of the relief line "obviously would be borne" from property taxes.

Ford, meanwhile, continued to tout his plan to build multiple subway lines across the city at a cost of $9 billion dollars. On Friday, he called it a “20-year plan.”

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“Folks, subways are the way to go and I've got what we can do now and realistically in the future,” he said, falsely adding he has already done what he said he would do by building the Scarborough subway. Ground has not yet broken on a council-approved subway for Scarborough.

Soknacki, meanwhile, tried again to distance himself from what he has called “fantasy” plans and funding.