lone wolf, even in Ontario, the most heavily populated province the highways, except for the 400, 401, QEW and a few other 400 series, highways are an international joke.
How about the tax base of Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and even Wisconsin?
The old saying if there is a will, there is a way. Here in Winnipeg, the closest one comes to a freeway is a Perimeter Highway, loaded with traffic lights.
In the States you can travel from Seattle to Miami, from San Diego to Boston, from Minneapolis to Houston, from Jacksonville to Los Angeles, from San Francisco to Washington without a single traffic light to impede your progress.
If Chretien or Trudeau or Mulroney had had the cojones of Eisenhower, they would have had started a system like the one in the States.
Until one comes along we better be prepared to be stuck behind a lumber truck or a retired old fogey.