The Indian Act bands can see the clock. Changing demographics will gut their political leverage and special status within 20 years - probably much less. Legacy Canadians are done being held hostage by a privileged race that is only 2.7% of the population - and just wait until the millions of recent arrivals notice the billions flowing every year to support the tribes. Punjabi-origin Canadians are about the same 2.7% of the population, yet they have 22 MPs, about 6.4% of the House of Commons seats. In contrast, only 8 MPs are Status Indian or Inuit. The Status Indians know that their window is closing. That’s why the urgency - even fear - and the sudden push to rewrite the Act behind closed doors before the rest of the country wakes up and the grift ends.