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Originally Posted by jammies
This exactly - why change it to no benefit other than to appease the"we don't need no Queen!" crowd. The current way the Governor-General is appointed works, has worked for 150 years, and will likely continue to work in the future. Anachronistic doesn't necessarily mean ineffective or in dire need of change.
It's also one of the identifiable differences between American and Canadian culture - we are (well I am, anyway) proud of being directly politically descended from British tradition, whereas Americans are proud of having had their system born from a revolution against the Crown. And that makes a huge difference in how we perceive the role of government and the law.
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Just to be a little pedantic... the way the Governor General works has changed many times over the years over the last century and a half, particularly following the King-Byng Affair. The GG is little more than a ceremonial figurehead now, but (especially) before the Statute of Westminster, the GG held a great deal of power to overrule our elected government.