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Observer23 said:The National Defence Act (NDA) is the document of authority http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/ShowFullDoc/cs/N-5///en . The QR&Os are regulations driven by the NDA. You referred to QR&O 3.01, which shows only one of the four columns.
Look at SCHEDULE (Section 21) of the NDA in Column III (Which is the land column). It is just pass article 306. You’ll find a pile of titles for each serial number. Have fun.
Please read the whole NDA, followed by QR&O. Then we can have an intelligent conversation. As it is, you have failed to read the full context of the NDA and are thus making an error.
NDA section 21:
Ranks of officers and non-commissioned members
21. (1) For the purposes of this Act, the ranks of the officers and non-commissioned members of the Canadian Forces shall be as set out in Column I of the schedule.
Use of other designations
(2) The Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing the circumstances in which a person holding a rank set out in Column I of the schedule shall use, or be referred to by, a designation of rank set out in Column II, III or IV of the schedule opposite the rank held by that person.
R.S., 1985, c. N-5, s. 21; R.S., 1985, c. 31 (1st Supp.), s. 60.
QR&O 3.01, a regulation issued by the Governor in Council IAW the authority granted under NDA section 21:
3.01 – RANKS AND DESIGNATIONS OF RANK
(1) The ranks of officers and non-commissioned members shall be as set out in Column I of the Schedule to the National Defence Act, which provides:
...(ranks omitted for brevity) ...
(2) An officer or non-commissioned member who, on or after the date this article comes into force (18 September 1986), holds a rank in the Canadian Forces set out in paragraph (1) and who, in accordance with orders and instructions issued by the Chief of the Defence Staff wears a naval uniform, shall use and be referred to by the designation of rank set out in Column II of the Schedule to the National Defence Act having the same serial number as that of his rank in paragraph (1), and reference in this paragraph to the rank held by an officer or non-commissioned member includes any rank to which the member may be promoted, reduced or reverted from time to time.
(3) Except in accordance with paragraph (2), no officer or non-commissioned member shall, after the coming into force of this article, use or be referred to by a designation of rank other than as set out in Column I of the Schedule to the National Defence Act.
(4) The ranks set out in paragraph (1) shall be used in all official communications within the Canadian Forces, except with respect to officers and non-commissioned members referred to in paragraph (2) for whom the rank designations set out in Column II of the Schedule to the National Defence Act shall be used.
(G)
So, in plain English: the NDA includes columns of ranks. Per section 21 of the NDA, only column I of those ranks may be used, unless otherwise authorised by the Governor in Council.
In the Q&RO, the Governor in Council has authorised personnel wearing Naval uniforms to be referred to using the ranks in column 2. Column 3 and column 4 are not authorised to be used. That the QR&O is flouted daily within many Army units is not the point being discussed. At the present time, under the National Defence Act and its related regulations, terms such as "Sapper", "Gunner" and "Trooper" are not authorised ranks.
Perhpas reading the full NDA (or at least conducting a key word search on an electronic copy) might be in order before posting...
(***Edit to change "table" to "Column" for consistency and accuracy ***)