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June 2008 Recently the term "de facto" was removed from the Governor General's official web page. Compare: http://www.gg.ca/gg/rr/index_e.asp which previously said this: What is the Governor General's position in Government? "Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy. This means Canadians recognize The Queen as our Head of State. Canada's Governor General carries out Her Majesty's duties in Canada on a daily basis and is Canada's de facto Head of State." Several archives and caches preserve and reveal the truth: This archived from February 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070206002725/http://www.gg.ca/gg/rr/index_e.asp More archives here http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gg.ca/gg/rr/index_e.asp De facto means usurped, without law or authority http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defacto "the the people obey a contract as though there were a law enforcing it yet there is no such law." compare de jure in the same article or here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejure By right; lawful; legitimate. Generally used in contrast to De Facto; de jure connotes ‘as a matter of law,' whereas de facto connotes ‘as a matter of practice not founded upon law.' De facto head of state http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto_head_of_state

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