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>People in Ontario and Quebec have gotten nasty letters threatening legal action even for saying they're software engineers on Linkedin.

Seriously? Are the engineering licensing organizations really scouring linkedin for people calling themselves "engineers, and sending threatening letters to anyone who's not on their list?

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Yes. When I worked in Quebec (around 2017) the company got a reminder from OIQ that employees should not call themselves Engineers on LinkedIn unless they had a P.Eng.

The Engineer title is taken seriously in Canada, similar to how you can’t claim to be a medical doctor unless you actually are one.

Yes.

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