I would argue that not all universities are in Toronto, and Vancouver. (where else would someone with a PHD in cultural anthropology find a job?)...The short answer is that it seems as if the goal was a professorship at UofT or nothing..


None the less, as someone else has pointed out, as educated as at least one of them is, why they ever thought they would immediately end up at the top of the pile in a western country is beyond most of us...