Each community across Inuit Nunangat, our homeland, receives a small bit of funds from the federal government to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day. That's the fund I was referring to. As far as the push from indigenous people from Inuit first nations and Métis on making it a statutory holiday goes, that's been a conversation for a long time that predates the TRC. There have been Inuit representational organizations, our governments, and us, that have started to recognize that day as a statutory holiday within our own structures.
As far as whether or not this bill would create a statutory holiday for all Canadians goes, I wouldn't want to see it framed as it is now going to be the TRC call to action implemented through creating a statutory holiday on June 21, because that is mixing very clearly the established place and purpose for National Indigenous Peoples Day and this particular part of the TRC call to action.
Again, whether or not the statutory holiday falls on June 21 or another date is picked within the calendar year is a question that without more consultation I don't have a position on.