Missing: Discussion of why Hancock Government attacked enforceable contracts in Bill 10

Amid all the brouhaha in recent weeks over Bill 9, the Alberta Progressive Conservative government's public service pension legislation, very little attention was paid to its private sector companion piece, Bill 10, the Employment Pension (Private Sector) Plans Amendment Act, 2014.

Yet, in some ways, Bill 10 is an even more troubling law, which on its face appears to undermine one of the foundations of modern commerce and orderly society: the legally enforceable contract.