You just have a stupid voting system

Apparently the NYPD has a budget of $5.4 billion, with is a lot, but would be about place 40 compared to military budgets

True, but ‘being in the EU’ is actually not that simple, and these territories have special statuses and and are not part of the ‘core EU’. Here is a simple visualization

Thinking outside the box continent. I like it

As the parliament says

In order to apply for EU membership, a country has to be European and respect the EU’s democratic values

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20180126STO94113/enlargement-how-do-countries-join-the-eu

Since according to Article 49

The applicant country must […] be a European state;

https://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/0ae670d2-1ece-4994-b1e3-adda39e1c6de.0006.03/DOC_1

I would support stronger ties to Canada, but Canada is not exactly in Europe