In Canada, you would not be legally allowed to call yourself an "engineer", nor would you be legally allowed to practice as one. Each province in Canada has an official government sanctioned body (Associations or Orders) controlling the profession of engineering. The primary requirement is to have an engineering degree (an "Iron Ring")from an accredited university, and to pass the various requirements and exams of, for example, The Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, or the Order of Engineers of Quebec, etc. The rules are stringently applied, and for good reason....it all boils down to the protection of the public.
I don't know your particulars and cannot comment, but I do know how I spent my 35-year engineering career under the laws of Canada.
A good reason not to live in Canada then.
The Wright brothers were engineers by any standard of the word but Canada would deny them calling themselves engineers or doing the work of an engineer?
Was Thomas Edison and engineer?
There are many other examples in history...
Has Bill Gates ever acted as a software engineer? No degree... They would stop him from doing it?
A degree does not make the engineer nor even prove competence. The individual does.
I’ll assume you are speaking of civil engineering which is different than many other fields of engineering.
I’ll add that I own my own business with two other partners in San Jose where we design, manufacture and sell high tech communications equipment all over the world. Neither partner nor I live in San Jose as we are free to live where we want.
No. Not at all actually.