Britain was already an integrated member that decided to exit. That's very different from opposing new deep integration.

We might not have a great Nazi gold to citizens ratio but our resources to citizens ratio is more than Iceland and Norway combined many many times over.

I never said that EU is an authoritarian institution, you made that up.

My argument is for keeping our existing sovereignty, such as for example being able to keep our own currency, and our more welcoming immigration policies. Canada doesn't need the Euro, doesn't need the ECB, we don't need the Dublin treaty and we don't need the Stability and Growth Pact.

Anything the EU does right (eg the GDPR) we can adopt and adapt for ourselves already. There is absolutely nothing holding us back from becoming better.

The EU is a complicated institution, parts of it are structurally neoliberal, in the same way that parts of Canadian institutions are structurally colonialist. So we really don't need the craziness of European politics internal dysfunction. We have enough of that of our own.

Keep the snark coming.