The nine justices took the case under deliberation at the end of the hearing. Lawyer Julius Grey argued Monday that his client's joke about Gabriel — part of the comedian's routine between 2010 and 2013 — targeted sacred cows in society as opposed to the singer's disability. "There is no right not to be offended," Grey said. "To insult someone doesn't deprive that person of a service or of a right." A 2016 Quebec human rights tribunal ruling had ordered Ward to pay $35,000 in moral and punitive damages to Gabriel, who has Treacher Collins syndrome, a congenital disorder characterized by skull and facial deformities. Gabriel became a celebrity in Quebec after he sang with Celine Dion and for the Pope.