Yes, I think contract academic staff are certainly highly qualified and highly capable of teaching. The challenge they often have is that they're juggling a very high course load, because in order to make a living, they have to take on an enormous amount of work. At UBC, you may have someone teaching a few courses at UBC and at Simon Fraser and one of the colleges. They're trying to pull it altogether.
I think the issue there is ensuring people have enough time to do the work they need to do—