I think this article is missing something. There is no way a engineering board has time to scrap every website and every person and see if they call themselves an engineer or not. He probably said or did something to bring in some eyes. I obviously have no idea what that is or was, but his website does have some interesting science on it. Perhaps the engineering board does not appreciate having someone with "engineering" degrees go around denying climate change?
The title is there to indicate a level of professionalism. Same with doctor, nurse, financial planner, etc. If you go around calling yourself a doctor while screaming about vaccines containing micro chips they'll probably do something about it. If that is right or not, I suppose doesn't really matter as the title provider wrote the rules.
> There is no way a engineering board has time to scrap every website and every person and see if they call themselves an engineer or not.
They actually do! The startup I currently work at, once it got to a decent size, the BC PEng association reached out and said “your company is full of people not registered as Professional Engineers with the job title Engineer, change or we’ll sue.” No biggie, we changed the job titles to Software Developer, and everyone updated their LinkedIn, etc. The exact same thing happened at the last startup I worked at, too. They’re pretty thorough.
They don’t sue right away, they just ask first, and normally everyone just changes the title when asked - Engineer IS a protected title here, you do have to be a registered Professional Engineer to use it. This guy only got sued because he refused to change it.
Literally the second paragraph states he's been a federal politician, and the fourth says he presented himself as an engineer for the purposes of campaigning... when you say "the article" did you really mean "the title"?
Is climate change an engineering field? Is a professional society of engineers supposed to regulate speech about topics unrelated to it? Do you not find this disturbing?
I find the whole thing very silly. But this is entirely 1 side of a story. And I don’t know any context. I doubt this story covers everything. This my suspicious that parts are missing that maybe answer the question.
If this is in fact the entire story. Then yes I do find it disturbing. But Canada is a giant nanny state so it’s not really shocking.
Are you saying he also went around denying climate change and screaming about vaccine microchips? I don't see that part. Am I missing something? Or did you make that up?
The title is there to indicate a level of professionalism. Same with doctor, nurse, financial planner, etc. If you go around calling yourself a doctor while screaming about vaccines containing micro chips they'll probably do something about it. If that is right or not, I suppose doesn't really matter as the title provider wrote the rules.