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Let me explain. In Western Canada, there are two parallel highways - Highway 1 (the Trans-Canada) and Highway 16 (the Yellowhead Highway). However, in Eastern Canada (with exceptions like PEI and Newfoundland), the Trans-Canada Highway uses existing provincial routes and thus has many different names (i.e. in Québec, most of the Trans-Canada is routed through the existing autoroute network). In addition, to make matters worse (keeping on the Québec example), although autoroutes are a Québec thing, a lot of the North America atlases I've seen (mainly from AAA) usually lists them as "Canadian Autoroutes", as though they are the equivalent of the US Interstate Highway System.

Which leads to my question: could there be the possibility of a trans-Canada expressway system, alongside the TCH, that could be formed in somewhat of the same mold as the US Interstate Highway System, with the exception that (since roads are mainly a provincial jurisdiction) the provinces created it independently of the federal government? Provincial expressways (such as Ontario's 400-series highways) could probably be allowed and even co-exist with the new expressway system.
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