A judge has ordered a Vancouver Island candidate for the People’s Party of Canada in the last federal election to stop calling himself an engineer.
David Hilderman, who ran for the PPC in the Saanich—Gulf Islands riding in 2021, has a university degree in engineering, but is not licensed as a professional engineer, according to a recent B.C. Supreme Court judgment. Engineer is a protected title in certain contexts in B.C.
Nonetheless, Hilderman introduced himself as an engineer on his campaign website, the PPC website, his Facebook page and his LinkedIn, the judgment says.
The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C.
