The judge who struck down Canada's prostitution laws was doing her job, and doing it well. It will be up to our elected officials to ensure that the removal of those laws does not create new problems.
Canada's laws have nothing to say about the morality or harm of prostitution itself. Prostitution is legal in Canada and always has been. But it is illegal to communicate in public for the purposes of prostitution, to live on the avails of prostitution or to keep or use a "common bawdy-house."
What consenting adults do is not anyone else's business, so a law making prostitution itself illegal is not the answer. But it's undeniable that prostitution can have effects beyond that private, consensual relationship. The behaviour itself is risky and there are legitimate concerns about the effect on neighbourhoods.
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