[joegaudet]

Actually, this was created to protect the public safety. To ensure that no one was holding them self out to be an engineer without evidence that they had the credentials to back it up.

The government didn't create this distinction, Canadian Engineers did. After a bridge in Quebec city fell down killing many workers in a completely avoidable accident, a group of Engineers met and determined that there should be an organization to encourage both good work, and the passing on of information to the next generation of engineers.

"The Engineering Institute of Canada agreed there should be a ceremony or a standard of ethics that should be developed for graduating engineers. They requested the assistance of Rudyard Kipling for the development of a suitable ceremony or ritual"

The goal here was never to make more money, in fact lots of engineers don't make massive piles of money. The goal of this tradition was to impart a system of ethics and obligation on graduating engineers to remind them of their duty to the public to do good work.

.joe

[MichaelGG]

Maybe I misread, but are you saying a private group created a protected title?

[joegaudet]

Well obviously they lobbied the government to make the title protected.