Once a week through the end of the 2014 mayoral election, we’ll introduce you to an obscure person who is vying to be Toronto’s chief magistrate. This is an edited version of the interview.

There have been cheerier mayoral campaigns. Candidate Wally Schwauss, a resident of North York, believes most of us have been “marked for destruction.”

Schwauss, 62, says he is a former railway conductor. He decided to run for mayor because he is unhappy the TTC decided to take old subway trains out of service when the new Toronto Rockets arrived. What really gets him going, though, is the U.S. military’s High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, better known as HAARP.

Just listen. He will explain everything.

Do you think you have a realistic chance of being elected?

I’m trying to give it a shot. Unless people give me equal opportunity of airtime to confront both John Tory and, uh, what do you call it, Olivia Chow, there is no chance. If I got the airtime to confront them on air, on television, well, then I’ll give them a real headache.

. . . When you add that up, and you understand where this is all heading, and this one world government is coming at you . . . we’re all individually earmarked for 90 per cent depopulation. Why would you want to submit and get on your knee and say OK I’ll take that mark of the beast which they want on your right hand or forehead . . .

Wait, sorry. What are you talking about?

OK, they have a 90 per cent depopulation program to depopulate the world by 90 per cent of the populace.

I’m sorry, who has this plan?

The 1 per cent factor or whoever puts together chemtrails or HAARP. You’ve heard of those things, haven’t you?

No. No, I haven’t.

Well, there’s such a thing as HAARP, and if you look it up, it’s a weather warfare program where they create droughts in countries, they create massive floods and weather warfare. And it’s well known. Their objective, with their 90 per cent depopulation program, is to get rid of 90 per cent of the population of the world. And there’s nothing that says you’re exempt or I’m exempt. So it’s obvious: in 2017, they want to start putting this mark on every person, that you can’t buy, sell or trade without this mark. So I’m asking you, there is this 90 per cent depopulation — why would you now want to submit and get on your knee and take the mark? Tell me why! You’re earmarked for destruction!

OK, but how does this have to do with the mayoral election?

How? Well, if we’re planning all these expansionary programs — you figure it out! Between 2017 and the time all this takes hold, maybe we won’t have the amount of populace in place to justify the work programs. Think about these things! These are politics that all affect locally, regionally, and on an entire cosmos, you understand, the entire environment — it affects everything on every level and walk of life. And I’m personally surprised, because you are media, that you weren’t that up on HAARP, that you’ve never heard of HAARP before. I didn’t cook this up!

Well, there’s a lot of things that I’m not an expert on. You know, there are things I know about and things I don’t.

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Yeah, but you realize that this is happening. These think tanks are playing games on us regardless of whether we believe it or not.

Right. OK. So as part of your campaign, you want to bring attention to the HAARP issue that people don’t know about?

It’s in the background. It’s something that looming, like — we accept cancer. It’s like a cancer. It’s looming. Now if you’re not aware of that, there’s nothing I can do. These things, we have to know. I mean, the other part, too, is, I talked to somebody about these sunscreens that we have today. These sunscreens produce more cancerous effects than they produce slowing down the rate. I mean, what’s the use of taking these SPFs — 15, 30, 55 — when it’s creating all this garbage? So I like to go out in the mornings, early, or late at night, when the sun’s no longer affecting me. I have an umbrella, but now I just want to walk with an umbrella. Because it’s suicidal to go out.