Some aboriginal national holiday is fine and all, yes awareness should be raised, but it's really yet another symbolic gesture that doesn't feed mouths or give people jobs etc.
Trudeau has asked the Pope for an apology, renamed some building in Ottawa that was named for some residential schools person, spoke with some protestors in a tipi, remains committed to an inquiry on missing/murdered aboriginal women etc etc. Most of these things don't do much of anything for aboriginals and most cost very little or nothing. Stop studying things and renaming things and apologizing and start doing something.
The sad reality is that aboriginals are trying to hold on to a pre-modern way of life that was brutally harsh and has been overly romanticized. War,
****, murder, disease, famine, infant mortality etc were common in "the good ol' days". If you want to isolate yourselves to live a subsistance way of life in the middle of nowhere, near little modern industry/commerce, with poor schooling, mediocre medical care etc. then accept your fate: your life is going to suck compared to the average Canadian who reaps all the benefits of living in modern industrial/capitalist society. A trillion dollars & a million acres of land isn't going to make up for that lack. Sure there's still lots of intergenerational trauma and it's very hard to lose your culture but for the sake of my children i'd get them the hell out of those 3rd-world hell holes.