I see what you mean... such as when the Europeans came to this continent and decided to lie and  cheat on nation to nation agreements in order to steal from and then subjugate the other half of said treaties? Yes, all that legislation, i.e. Indian Act,  meant to fully benefit those Europeans and their descendants, and to this very day, at the expense of what is duly and lawfully owed to the Indigenous is indeed,  a very sick and negative path.  
Time for Canada to get busy on the reparations - the full and just reparations, with the entire interest due as well.