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Joining the Euro is optional, several countries have not. Joining Schengen is optional, several countries have not. I'll grant you the laws part but if you read them you might find you like them.

Edit: You perhaps meant free-movement of people from other EU states, which is true, but generally considered a mutual-benefit.

It would make more sense for Canada to have a free trade agreement like the EFTA, than joining the European Union. There's the CETA already, but it's still provisional after over seven years.

>allow foreign representatives of other EU nations to impose laws on us.

This is, of course, wrong. EU doesn't function like that at all.