I think we have to sometimes just remember what the CBC Radio Orchestra actually was. The CBC Radio Orchestra is not an orchestra like the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, where we have employed musicians, full-time. That's not what it is. It's different kinds of players who get together occasionally to play music, and we pay them to do that.
I just don't want people to have the impression we were winding up something that is now scattered to the winds. Many of these people continue to play; they play for different orchestras around Vancouver. That's the situation.
As we were saying earlier, really, this issue of the CBC orchestra in Vancouver was one of cost. As the president said, for the price of doing one recording for the CBC using the CBC Radio Orchestra in Vancouver, we could do three if we used other orchestras, of which there are about 46 symphony orchestras across the country.
That just seemed to us, frankly, as a matter of fairness, economy, and good sense, the right thing to do.
I would just say there's a reason why all other radio orchestras of this variety in North America, of which there were very many, have been disbanded. This is the last one left in North America.