It's a great country, but I wonder what engineering and technology products - commercial or domestic - do Canada export to the UK, or the world for that matter? What do we have in the UK that says 'made in Canada'?


There could be some small island, somewhere in the world, that may have set the highest standards ever to practice as an engineer; even higher than Canada and UK put together. But their export market is Bananas.


One possible reason for setting such high standards might be in the event an engineer makes an error - health and safety - which could result in the entire population being wiped out, as they're only say 300 people living there. But should the population of engineers in the UK need to concern themselves with the merits of registration, because one of us might be thinking of immigrating to that remote island?


I sense there is an unbalanced obsession from some members with respect to UK registration, when comparing with standards set by other countries.


I have no doubt in my mind that if the EC ever required registrants to demonstrate proof of having run the London marathon (as a 3 legged race) and climbed Mount Everest - at least to base camp - there will be some people who would strive to achieve it, just for the title of CEng or IEng; because they're simply geeky or nerdy and obsessive enough to do it. 


From my perspective, if I were ever to immigrate to Canada and wished to practice as an engineer, I would simply take whatever exams that were required of me. Simple as that!