Not in the province of Quebec, you can't call yourself engineer or pretend your are one. If caught you will be fined.

http://www.peo.on.ca/enforcement/Quebec_MS_April2004.pdf

Is there a law that says software has to get fat over time?

Do you need a car analogy on this?

We have the "blamecanada" tag, maybe we need the "blameusa" tag now =]