Global influence!?

The Economist ran an interesting survey to see who has the most positive influence on the world and surprisingly Canada came in first place. It doesn't really explain much about the survey so I'm not totally sure what the questions(s) were or who they asked so it's hard to really comment much on this but I wonder how much people really know about Canada? Often people see Canada as a semi-socialist, cold wilderness paradise but I can't imagine that much is actually known about the country.

No wonder people put Canadian flags on their bags when the travel. :)