David Brezer, P.Eng., might have some justification for feeling besieged by the prolonged negotiation and sometimes heated rhetoric that has surrounded the development of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing's (MMAH) building regulatory changes (formerly Bill 124). A former member of PEO Council, Brezer now serves as acting director of the building and development branch of the housing ministry. It's a role that requires Brezer to defend a piece of legislation that many in the engineering community would describe as a threat to the profession and an undermining of the self-regulating authority of engineers under the Professional Engineers Act (PEA). An example of the acrimony over the issue can be seen in PEO President George Comrie's message in the November/December issue of Engineering Dimensions (p. 3). Last December, Engineering Dimensions sat down with Brezer to better understand the origins and direction of the regulatory changes from his point of view, and their effect on Ohtario's? professional engineers.
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