I'm happy to do so.
We have a constitutional system in which tremendous power is held by a number of appointed officials. We've got nine judges on the Supreme Court of Canada to make important decisions every day about our rights and freedoms and the powers of government. We're not rioting in the streets about anti-democracy in that institution. We've got appointed senators. We've got the head of the CRTC. That's an appointed position, and it affects the types of shows I can watch. We also have a Governor General who has a number of prerogatives as head of state--she doesn't use them often, but they are there--to protect a constitutional system that has many layers and in which different arms of government coordinate in important ways.
So to me this is not the antithesis of a democratic system; it is fully democratic in that its working parts function cohesively. When those parts cease to work appropriately--and maybe we have moments when we want to add democratic impulses to certain of our appointing processes, say how judges get appointed to the Supreme Court--we can democratize that process to a certain extent. But I don't think we're going to start electing judges in this country, for the very good reason that appointed officials have important roles to play in our constitutional democracy.
So I'm not troubled by the role the Governor General plays as head of state. Her function is to protect the Constitution for the citizens of Canada where elected representatives may on occasion depart from constitutional conventions that are important.