Who really is number one?

  Have you ever listened to a radio station and you hear "We are the number 1 radio station..." All radio stations say it, they are all number 1. How can this be? Truth be told they never state number 1 of what? Most commercials? Most talking? Most 70's songs....Every radio station finds some category, no matter how obscure, that they are number 1 and then advertise that they are number 1.
 With this in mind, who is the number 1 most famous Canadian? We have many Canadians who have made significant contributions in the world.
 Alexander Graham Bell the inventor of the phone? Fred Banting the scientist who discovered Insulin? Terry Fox remembered every year with the Terry Fox Run? Laura Secord the heroine from 1812 and of course the Chocolate Queen?  Wayne Gretzky or Bobby Orr, arguably the two best players ever to play hockey?
  In entertainment we have Leonard Cohen, Celine Dion, Shania Twain and of course Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Anyone of these Canadians could be our most famous brother or sister.
 So how is it possible that last week Avril Lavigne was named, by MIT, as the world's most famous Canadian? I would argue that if you asked 100 people throughout the world who is the most famous Canadian Avril Lavigne would certainly not be the winner and possibly would not even be mentioned.
 Of course it is not said what she is most famous for? According to MIT,when entering certain data into their computer and then calculating hits and visits and all other internet information Avril Lavigne comes up as the most famous Canadian. Perhaps then, she is the most famous Canadian, visited by many young unemployed people from all over the world who own computers, have access to the internet and have nothing else to do but surf the net.
 I myself would like to think that in the eyes of the world Canada is a country that has made major contributions to the world and I would therefore submit that they consider William Shatner as the world's most famous Canadian.