Sure, and that's laudable, both for Canada and for your family. But most other countries don't have such a professional certification program, and since a ton of brilliant creators of software never had one, should we declare them fake engineers? People like John Carmack, Fabrice Bellard, Richard Hipp, Linus Torvalds... I think ultimately results speak for themselves. Surely there are plenty of middling licensed Canadian software engineers as well. Let's not police language like this.