Winnipeg Free Press By: Dylan Robertson David Chartrand, president of the Manitoba Metis Federation. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA — The Manitoba Metis Federation has signed a cash settlement with Ottawa to repeal a lawsuit about not being consulted when the former Kapyong barracks lands were transferred to local First Nations. OTTAWA — The Manitoba Metis Federation has signed a cash settlement with Ottawa to repeal a lawsuit about not being consulted when the former Kapyong barracks lands were transferred to local First Nations. The former south Winnipeg military site closed in 2004. In August 2019, the federal Liberals transferred the site to Treaty 1 First Nations, after a decade-long court battle.