Let's put this into perspective.
Earlier I did a piece of how much value Canadian companies are receiving currently on the work they are doing on the F35 program. Its about 3% of the value of a F35. I ball parked the value of a F35 at 80m USD. The 3% is approximately 2.4$m USD or or 3.36$m CAD a plane. If they produce another 1,500 F35's that 1,500 * 3.36$m CAD = 5,040,000,000$ CAD. So our current potential revenue on the F35's, based on 1,500 planes produced from here on out and our current value add of 3% of the total value of a produced F35 holds true, CDN businesses stand to make 5$ billion CAD
IF CDN defense companies are able to garner a similar value of the 150$ billion Euro pot of money that would be 150 * .03% = 450,000,000 Euro or 450,000,000 * 1.60 = 720,000,000 CAD. The amount of 1.60 represents an approximate current exchange rate between the CAD and the Euro.
So, the F35 program, based on the above back of the napkin math, is worth 7X more in terms of dollars and cents to Canadian industries. I'm NOT saying that we shouldn't go all in on SAFE, but even if we fight tooth and nail and get 6% of the total pot of money available it would still represent 3X less than the current F35 project.