

Oh, I have a lot of that, but I’m realising you need everything to be spelled out very thoroughly and subtlety is lost on you, so here we go:
The EU isn’t an authoritarian institution that you are afraid of, and as Britain’s example showed, the closer you are to being a full member, the better the benefits, and the more you’re trying to play a big boy, the more you’re in the shit.
Canada doesn’t have the proper ratio of citizens to stored Nazi gold to properly pull off Switzerland thing anyway.
But sure, closer cooperation is better than no cooperation
Obviously nothing is perfect. But there are levels of not perfect.