I do, if I may.
It's a lovely idea, but it can't go anywhere because there is no basis for an orchestra series in Surrey yet. There's no structure, there's no federal funding, there's no board of directors. You can go out and hire an orchestra anywhere you want. You can hire an orchestra and put it in Chilliwack and call it the Chlliwack Symphony. It doesn't work that way. An orchestra has to belong to a community. The musicians would not necessarily move to Surrey any more than there are many Surrey musicians who work in the Vancouver Symphony.
So as much as it's a lovable idea, I don't see how it can possibly get off the ground. I have a feeling the Surrey council believes it can have an orchestra on a $700,000 annual budget. Orchestras cost somewhere between $13 million and $20 million a year to run.