A Canadian military officer is facing mutiny charges after he urged fellow soldiers not to help distribute COVID-19 vaccines during an anti-lockdown protest in Toronto late last year. 

Officer Cadet Ladislas Kenderesi was charged on May 12 with persuading others to join in a mutiny as well as scandalous behavior unbecoming of an officer stemming from comments he made at a protest on December 5, according to Canadian military officials.

'I'm asking military, right now serving, truck drivers, medical, engineers, whatever you are, do not take this unlawful order (for) the distribution of this vaccine,' he was heard telling the crowd of demonstrators in a video posted to YouTube. 

It is not clear whether Kenderesi has a history of opposition to vaccines, but referring to the shot as a 'killer vaccine,' his comments urging fellow members of the armed forces to forsake the government's Operation VECTOR vaccine distribution program would appear to have gone too far.

'I might get in a lot of s**t for doing this, but I don't care anymore,' he said.

A military spokesman said he has been relieved of military duties pending the outcome of the investigation against him. 

News of the charges came as nearly 53 percent of all Canadians have been inoculated against the coronavirus, according to federal figures.

On May 14 a GoFundMe was launched to help pay for Kenderesi's legal defense. 

Although it has since been deleted, an archive of the page referred to coronavirus vaccines as 'experimental gene therapy' and claimed that Kenderesi faces life in prison.