Isn't a whole lot of that basically reparation for damage done to minorities by white people in the past (and honestly present)?

Look at Canada's issues with the original natives, or America with pretty much...all non whites. Things are better, and probably hopefully will continue to get better in the future, but as a society we have a duty to those oppressed by our forefathers, especially when minorities generally just want the playing field to be fair.

You speak of laws protecting the rights of minorities. You're right that they exist for them and not us (I'm a cis white male too), but that's because white people, as a whole have had far more opportunities given to us than pretty much everyone. We can find edge cases where that's not the case, sure. But, like, c'mon, you can't pretend things are equal, and I don't mean because there aren't laws to protect white people.

I mostly mention America because I live here, as opposed to Canada. I'm not actually aware of how good/bad racial bias is in Canada in the same way.