We recognized socially that people who engineer things need to have professional ethics and carry liability for their projects.

The whole reason we have engineers is because we used to let anyone call themselves that and lo and behold a bunch of bridges collapsed under load and killed people. Who could’ve thought?!

Almost 2/3rds of the professionals in my family are licensed engineers and we take it extremely seriously.

Canada has only been actually licensing software engineers for a short time compared to other disciplines - but the industry as a whole is due for a reckoning.