Mike Ward

Ward also joked about Jérémy Gabriel, a disabled boy with Treacher Collins syndrome. Jérémy's parents filed a complaint with the Quebec human rights commission, and the commission brought the case in front of Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal seeking $80,000 in damages from Ward. On July 20, 2016, he was ordered to pay $42,000 ($35,000 to Jérémy, $7,000 to his mother). His attorney, Julius Grey, appealed the decision. In November, 2019 Quebec’s highest court largely upheld a human-right’s tribunal’s ruling requiring a comedian to pay damages to a disabled singer he mocked, while overturning the part of the decision that ordered Mike Ward to also pay $7,000 to the victim’s mother. The comedian’s lawyer, Julius Grey, said he would seek leave to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. The rejection of the mother’s claims, plus the strength of the third judge’s dissent, amounted to a “partial victory” despite the defeat, he said in a phone interview as reported by MORGAN LOWRIE, MONTREAL. THE CANADIAN PRESS PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Ward has been the subject of controversy. At Jean-Marc Parent's 2008 Just For Laughs French gala, he made a joke about Revenu Québec, in which he mentioned Cédrika Provencher, a young girl who had been abducted in 2007 in Quebec and whose remains were found in December 2015.

Michael John Ward (born September 14, 1973 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a French-Canadian comedian. He performs comedy in both French and English.