that's what's known as a tortured reading of the statute there's nothing particularly special about king's highways it just means a road bigger than a cow path for vehicular travel that has been registered that is controlled and maintained by the province that's all in the definitions in part i it's just a archaic legal formalism probably dating back beyond telford and mcadam as is the approval of the lt governor it is particularly telling that the other acts such as the hta use somewhat different phraseology if this were language with strong legislative intent arguably you'd find greater consistency the main thrust is that the roads themselves are no longer termed king's highways at the mto they are provincial highways they are divided into classes controlled access secondary and tertiary this article needs to reflect current reality