Sir, I think the best way to deal with the paranoia is doing what in fact you are doing, which is the personal contact with your counterparts in the United States.
My belief is that the two institutions that are probably best integrated in the positive sense, while maintaining our sovereignty, are the Canadian military and the American military, where there's a tremendous amount of sharing going on because we often have common adversaries when we're abroad, or at home dealing with things such as floods, as you described, where the military is often called in. That works extremely well. For example, there's the interoperability of the Canadian navy with the American navy. You, sir, are very familiar with this, I think.
But that comes down to a personal contact, and that builds trust. When you have trust, then information sharing is not such a problem.