> I'm curious if this is actually a thing that has ever been an issue for software engineers. I mean, Google doesn't call it's programmers in Canada "software

> I'm curious if this is actually a thing that has ever been an issue for software engineers. I mean, Google doesn't call it's programmers in Canada "software engineers" like it does everywhere else, so yes. > I feel like it's not the government's place to argue semantics, er...what? regulating who does various professions and what they call themselves is a very common and important thing that government does. you've got things backwards - swathes of programmers weirdly started calling themselves "engineers" in the relatively recent past.