Nearly a decade ago, Canadian comedian Mike Ward mocked disabled singer Jeremy Gabriel with Treacher Collins Syndrome during a show and ended up in front of the country’s top court.
Jeremy Gabriel was born with a genetic disorder that can affect the facial bone structure and has been suffering from severe deafness due to the medical condition.
Not losing hopes, Jeremy followed his dreams and become a singer and performed for many public figures in the past few years.
Parents of the disabled Canadian singer filed a complaint against comedian Mike Ward who mocked Jeremy in his shows between 2010 to 2013.
In 2016, a Quebec human rights tribunal ordered the comedian to pay $35,000 under moral and punitive damages to Gabriel.
The jokes by Mike have seemed out-of-bound for mockery as the comedian believed that the condition of the singer was terminal and tried to drown him.
On the other hand, impaired persons in Pakistan have to lead a challenging lifestyle with almost no cooperation from society.
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It has been a common occurrence that people with disabilities in Pakistan often face hostile attitudes from their friends and family members.
In most cases, children born with maladies are abandoned by their parents who consider them a liability.
People strive hard to conceal the ailment of their children in the early stages of life.
The people born with any abnormality have to face ignorance and unpleasant behaviors throughout their lives.
Despite a number of provisions in the Constitution, disabled people are still treated as an insignificant minority in the country.
Contrarily, the disabled singer in Canada rose to heights of fame despite the syndrome and has now challenged a famous comedian in Supreme Court over mockery.
The case of the disabled Canadian singer has raised the question if the differently-abled people in Pakistan would ever have the same opportunities.