I have it from the horse's mouth that most of the Canadian political parties agree with me, and for those reasons. At the moment, we have the other lot in power, but there's an election soon.
Its easy when your in opposition to point to something else to try and differentiate yourself to the other guy.
A bit different when you have to make those decisions and weigh up all the compromise that politically go with it. knowing the yanks as they are, there would't be any of consequence, so feel free.
Lets face it the main use of fast jet forces are to be against an another with fast jets. (in practice they are being used against savages).
In the case of a serious adversery, we aren't going to be involved in much without the yanks. As such, one wonders how much decision making relies on total foreseen force make up and interoperability.