We didn't have a say in the voting process, your statement is quite false and misleading.  

There was an open call for nominations and an independent advisory council was selected to choose out of those submitted.  Canadians were able to submit a formal opinion survey on the long list, twelve nominations who were chosen by the council, to gauge their decisions.  The advisory council also submitted a short list of five nominees and did focus group testing of those five to see what the reaction would be.  This short list of five choices was then submitted  to the Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Minister of Finance.  The Minster made the final choice.  

Nowhere did we vote for anyone on the bill.  We were given the ability to submit an opinion survey on twelve nominees already chosen, not of the entire list.  Granted, submissions were originally taken publicly, but we did not get to vote on the list.

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/banknoteable/selection-process/