He was just playing silly buggers. Canada can in a sense be seen as the 'best place' to buy a *A RTW ticket because, due to the famous Canadian exception in the Rules, you may buy a ticket in Canada for a trip starting anywhere in the world and pay the same (often, cheaper) fare as if you bought the ticket in the country where you actually start the trip. Everywhere else, if the fare is higher from the country where you buy the ticket compared to the country where you start the trip, you have to pay the higher fare. Catch-22, of course, is that you then have to get to the starting point (and home again at the end of your trip) on your own steam, which may or may not work out cheaper altogether than simply buying the RTW ticket from where you actually are.

cheers,

Henry