Throughout the provincial election campaign, the Star has been fact checking each of the major party leaders for five days at a time, listening to everything that leader says publicly and classifying each statement of fact as true, false or a stretch.
A statement of fact is a claim that can be, for the most part, marked as true or false. The sky is blue. Ontario has a larger population than Quebec. Joe Biden won the 2021 U.S. presidential election.
The Star’s fact checking method, tested during last summer’s federal election campaign, requires a leader to make a certain number of statements of fact to form a reasonable judgment of how truthful they are compared to the rest.
Over the course of five days, the Progressive Conservative leader made just 18.
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