Thanks for your thoughtful response! I really appreciate your insight. Tina's PowerPoint presentation shows how the Seven Teachings applies to KO Telemedicine, and based on this, I think I can see how these principles apply to this project.
By the way, there's a new draft of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans: http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/english/newsandevents/newsreleases/draft_2nd_ed_of_TCPS.cfm
There's one section on page 107 that states that if a community follows a particular ethics code, then the research ethics board has to take that code into consideration and resolve any differences.