This is a reply to a question asked by Mr. Nerysoo on March 25, 1992. On Monday, March 23rd the Hon. Titus Allooloo travelled by scheduled flights from Yellowknife to Pond Inlet. While in Pond Inlet Monday night, Tuesday and Wednesday, he conducted constituency work related to the upcoming plebiscite and other matters. Along with representatives of the TFN, they had phone-in radio shows and public meetings.

Travel to Igloolik and Hall Beach was not possible at this time due to scheduling difficulties. Mr. Allooloo also travelled to lqaluit, representing the Minister of Economic Development and Tourism and the MLA for lqaluit at the annual meeting of the Baffin Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Allooloo's travel to Pond Inlet was paid by the Executive as part of the Minister's approved home travel budget. His living allowance while travelling was paid by the Legislative Assembly.

Mr. Pollard.

I have three returns, Mr. Speaker. The first is a return to a question asked by Mr. Nerysoo on March 12, 1992. To capitalize on promotional opportunities offered by the GNWT's participation at Expo '92, a service contract of $29,300 was awarded to Mr. Angel Cosmos to provide planning assistance for the delivery of an export strategy for Northwest Territories arts and crafts products in the European marketplace. Mr. Cosmos developed a series of exhibitions in Spain to be held from April to October 1992, entitled ART/ico, a play on Spanish words meaning art and arctic.

In February 1992, to introduce the upcoming exhibitions, Mr. Cosmos, representing the GNWT, participated in Arco '92, an International Art Trade Fair in Madrid. An EDA, Economic Development Agreement, contribution of $14,000 was provided to Arctic Co-operatives Ltd. to produce a catalogue to accompany the series of ART/ico exhibitions.

The scheduled exhibitions are as follows: April to May 1992, Galeria D'Kada in Madrid; April to May 1992, Galeria Dube in Barcelona; April to May 1992, Galeria El Barco in Seville; summer 1992, Galeria Amboan in Valencia; July to August 1992, Galeria Dube in Barcelona, during the Olympics.

Furthermore, a new import company for all NWT arts and crafts has also been formed, based in Pamplona and headed by Mr. Joaquin Ariz with seed capital of $50,000 provided by five Spanish investors, Currently, a wide selection of Dene and Inuit arts and crafts are being sent to Mr. Ariz for review.

Based on the interest shown by this new company, further exporting of Dene products in Europe may be expected.

In May 1991, the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo opened with the Amway Environmental Foundation's "Masters of the Arctic" non-commercial exhibit of sculpture, tapestries and prints. Funding of approximately $30,000 was provided to the Amway Environmental Foundation to assist with the exhibition and their March to May 1992 exhibition in Mexico.

Seizing on this promotional opportunity, in June 1991, Arctic Co-operatives Ltd., ACL, organized a commercial exhibit at the Kurasheno Teccho Gallery, a privately run gallery in Tokyo. A BDF, business development fund, contribution of $15,000 was provided to ACL to assist the company in establishing a Japanese market for Inuit arts and crafts through this exhibition.

In May 1991, a service contract of $15,200 was also provided to ACL to contract the services of a Japanese-s peak i ng agent for introductions to Japanese companies and counselling in Japanese business practices.

With the goal of developing new customers among Tokyo art galleries, dealers and corporate collectors, the department also provided a service contract in September 1991 of $56,500 to Mr. T. Iwasaki for project management of a trade show at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. This contract provided for Iwasaki's fees and expenses as well as costs associated with display and promotion.

In October 1991, an Inuit art trade show was held with three BDF contributions each valued at $15,000 provide to lqaluit Fine Arts Studio, West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative and Arctic Co-operatives Ltd. to assist with their attendance.

In November 1991, a service contract of $19,500 was provided to Mr. T. Iwasaki to produce a written document outlining planning arrangements for commercial exhibitions in other venues in Japan. Four exhibitions are planned: March 1992, Pan Gallery In Tokyo; April 3-23, 1992, Kirin-Seagram Gallery in Osaka; May 9-24, 1992, Yokohama Museum of Art in Yokohama, to coincide with the Canada-Japan Business Conference; and fall 1992, Marui Imai Department Store in Sapporo.

To complete marketing activities in support of introducing NWT products to Japan, the department provided a service contract in December of 1991 of $33,600 to Mr. T. Iwasaki, a consultant based in Toronto who specializes in Canada/Japan trade relations.

As in Europe, the Japanese marketing initiatives have been built on the current awareness in Japan of NWT arts and crafts. This has been mainly that of Inuit art. Plans are to broaden the awareness to include Dene arts and crafts, and a wide selection of Dene and Inuit arts and crafts will be sent to the Marui Imai Department Store for their review in preparation for the October exhibit.

A briefing on the department's marketing plans was recently provided to Mr. John Treleaven, Minister-Counsellor, commercial, with the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. Mr. Treleaven's letter of March 11, 1992 gives a message of strong support to the department for its ongoing trade missions to Japan.

A service contract of $10,000 to Lexken Communications was provided to market NWT arts and crafts in a series Of exhibitions in Korea. Also, a service contract of $10,000 was provided to the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative to enable Inuit artist Kenoujuak Ashevak of Cape Dorset to attend the opening of a commercial exhibition in Seoul, Korea. We are

contacting Mr. and Mrs. Robertson to pursue the promotion of Dene arts and crafts as well.

In the United States, our department co-ordinated with the Department of External Affairs to mount a trade mission to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in March 1992. Of the several businesses approached, only Arctic Co-operatives Ltd. and Treeline Trappings expressed any interest. Recently, unfortunately, Treeline Trappings withdrew from the mission.

The second one, Mr. Speaker, is a reply to a question asked by Mr. Todd on March 9, 1992 concerning regional advisory boards under the NWT Business Credit Corporation Act. The NWT Business Credit Corporation Act provides for regional loan boards to be established by regulation. The regional boards have only advisory authority, as all recommendations must be authorized by the territorial board. In the meantime, nominations have been solicited for regional boards, and appointments will be made where warranted.

Under the new Business Credit Corporation Act, a new option is available to speed up processing of applications. Specifically, the act allows for the appoint of credit officers with lending authority up to $50,000. It is expected that, shortly, a proposal will be presented to the Business Credit Corporation Board for approval to designate regional superintendents as credit officers. Should this option be successful, the need for regional boards will be diminished.

In the meantime, it is our intention to decentralize decision making by designating regional departmental officials as credit officers to speed up the approval process.

It is not intended at this time that any additional department staff travel to Expo to participate or assist in on-site promotions during the life of the fair. Further, I have recently instructed that all staff requests to travel to Expo, for any purpose be directed to my office. I expect very little, if any, further department staff travel over the life of the fair.

Returns to oral questions. Mr. Morin.

This is a reply to a question asked by Mrs. Marie-Jewell on March 27, 1992. Further to the supplementary to Question O415-12(2) on the actual costs for the Housing Corporation Board of Directors, I wish to provide the following information.

In my previous responses on this matter, estimated direct costs, based on 1991-92 year-to-date expenditures, were $276,000. To this amount, an inflationary factor of $13,800, equal to five per cent, was added to come to the approximate figure for 1992-93 of $290,000. The actual expenditures for 1991-92, now that the fiscal year is over, are $277,614. Therefore, the estimate of $290,000 for 1992-93 is valid.

Unfortunately, providing actual costs in relation to the indirect board costs is not possible because the government does not track actual expenses in such great detail as to record the hours spent by senior managers at annual board meetings, time spent developing new policies, programs and procedures for board review. The approximate costs mentioned for direct board expenses were based on estimates of management and staff time during 1991-92. The estimated value was $330,000 for 1991-92, to which a five per cent inflationary adjustment of $16,000 was added to come to the 1992-93 approximate value of $346,000.

Returns to oral questions. Mr. Patterson.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have three returns. First a reply to Mr. Gargan to a question asked March 9, 1992. The Workers' Compensation Board follows the same criteria as the GNWT with regard to affirmative action consideration under the priority classification of resident disabled persons. All of the board's employment advertising states that it is an affirmative action employer.

In the past, three disabled persons have been employed at the board, one of whom had been injured in an industrial accident. During the last six months, the board knows of only one disabled person who applied on a competition. Currently there is an injured worker being sponsored through the rehabilitation division on a work experience program of 12 weeks' duration within the board's safety education division. This is providing on-the-job training to augment this individual's safety career program training from the Alberta Safety Institute.

This is a reply to a question asked by Mrs. Marie-Jewell on February 25, 1992. I will be happy to share the report of the family law review with Members when I receive it. The family law review working group has not yet reported, through progress has been made since I last addressed this issue.

There have been a number of factors which have contributed to delay in reporting. When the original contractor did not finish the work as expected, the working group met a year ago and decided to complete the work by having individual members of the working group assume responsibility for writing portions of the material. All reports on issues have been submitted. This represents the completion of the bulk of the work, and that was the stage which the project was at when I responded to questions in November.

Since then, the chairperson, who is currently with the Department of Social Services, has reviewed the material and has completed a draft of recommendations. The recommendations have to be properly edited before they can be distributed to members of the working group for comments and revision. We expected that this would have been done by now, but I am advised that conflicting job-related obligations have prevented the completion of this material. I understand that a full three weeks of work is still required before the recommendations can be distributed for review by the other working group members.

Because of my concern with this delay, I have requested and received a confirmation from the Department of Social Services

that the chairperson will be freed of other responsibilities for a period of time sufficient to complete a draft of recommendations which can be distributed to working group members. Given that commitment, I can outline for you a revised timetable. It is estimated that the work on the first draft of recommendations to be distributed to working group members will be completed by the end of April. It will be distributed to members with a request to respond by the end of May.

As significant work may be involved for the working group in reaching agreement on the recommendations, it is estimated that one month should be set aside for redrafting the report and distributing it to the members for final review. Final revisions should be accomplished and the report made to myself and the Minister of Social Services by the end of July. The Minister of Social Services and I have instructed our officials to do everything possible to facilitate the completion of the project within this time frame.

This is a reply to a question asked by Mr. Koe on March 25, 1992. From information made available to me, it would appear that the Uqqurmiut Inuit Artists Association of Pangnirtung is a non-profit corporation administered by a volunteer board of directors representing a variety of different types of artists. I understand that the funds raised from lotteries is intended to be used for the next phase of their capital project, which includes the expansion of the print shop.

Although all charitable organizations could be described as non-profit organizations, the opposite is not necessarily true. The constitution and by-laws of a corporation set out its objects and purposes. One of the objects of Uqqurmiut Inuit Artists Association specifically relates to the purchase and marketing of fine arts. As well, under the by-laws, the association has the ability to employ salaried employees and the right to issue shares for sale.

The association, as it is presently constituted, cannot be considered a charitable organization and therefore is not eligible for lottery licences. Further, the stated purpose of expanding their capital projects, which includes the business of a print shop, does not meet the criteria set down for charitable purposes. Accordingly, I have no option but to support the decision made by the regional director of the Baffin Region to deny the lottery licence application of the Uqqurmiut Inuit Artists Association.

Finally, let me assure the honourable Member for Inuvik that the government certainly supports this type of community venture in the promotion of Inuit art and culture and would recommend that Uqqurmiut Inuit Artists Association consider the establishment of a separate organization or society that would quality for lottery licences to be used for acceptable charitable purposes.

Mr. Allooloo.

This is a reply to a question asked by Mr. Gargan on February 25, 1992. On February 25 the member from Deh Cho asked me, in which other areas in the Northwest Territories, besides the Fort Providence access road, does the Department of Transportation use sodium chloride to Remove ice from highway surfaces.

When required for reasons of safety, the Department of Transportation uses road salt to remove ice on all paved sections of the territorial highway system. These are:

Highway No. 1: NWT/Alberta border to Enterprise, 84 km; approaches to Kakisa River bridge, 3 km; junction of Highway No. 3 south of Fort Providence, 5 km. Highway No. 2: Enterprise to Hay River, 43 km. Highway No. 3: junction with Highway No. 1 south of Fort Providence, 1 km; west of Edzo to east of Fort Rae, 7 km; junction of Highway No. 4 to 3 km north of the Yellowknife airport, 6 km. Highway No. 4: Yellowknife to Dettah access road, 10 km. Highway No. 5: junction Highway No. 2 to 30 km south of junction Highway No. 6, 92 km; Fort Smith west to the Salt River bridge, 15 km. Highway No. 6: junction Highway No. 5 to 24 km east, 24 km. Highway No. 8: Inuvik airport road, 10 km.

Ms. Cournoyea.

This is a reply to a question asked by Mr. Gargan on March 4, 1992 on the Human Rights Code and obligations to reveal personal health status. There are three pieces of legislation related to human rights which are relevant in these circumstances. Two are federal and one is territorial.

The first is the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. This applies to all NWT legislation and GNWT policies. Reporting requirements for communicable diseases in public health legislation and employment policies and practices of. the GNWT must comply with the charter. Legislation and policy must attempt to balance private rights with the public interest. Examples of rights that may be violated include those rights protected by section 7, the right to life, liberty and security of the person; the right to privacy; and section 15, which prohibits discrimination based on disability.

The second is the federal Human Rights Act. This statute applies to the GNWT and the federal government in their capacity as employers and landlords. Among other things, it prohibits discrimination based on disability in employment and the provision of services, such as accommodation.

It is important to note that the effect of human rights legislation is to prohibit discrimination to all stages of the employment process, advertising the position, application forms, interviewing, hiring, promotion and dismissal, not just termination of employment.

Were the GNWT to require that health professionals indicate their HIV status, if known, on applications for licensing or employment in the NWT, or that health professionals disclose this information if they learn they are HIV positive after they are licensed or employed, it is probable that the courts and/or Canadian Human Rights Commission would find this to be discriminatory.

Based on the current medical knowledge of HIV transmission, the risk of HIV transmission from health care workers to patients is extremely rare where universal precautions are used. Consequently, it is doubtful that the courts would find the public interest to outbalance individual rights.

This is a reply to a question asked by Mr. Nerysoo on March 27, 1992. It would defeat the purpose of the proposed review if it were predetermined who should be asked for alternative advice and expertise. The Stanton Yellowknife Hospital Board is aware of the Member's interest in inviting Mr. Lalonde to appear during the review.

This is a reply to questions asked by Mrs. Marie-Jewell on March 25th, Mr. Gargan on March 30th and Mr. Nerysoo on March 30th. Mr. Speaker, the former Minister of Health was asked a number of questions concerning pain relief for abortion procedures. In order to deal with these, an explanation of some technical terms may be helpful to a better understanding of the current concerns regarding adequacy of pain control for abortions performed at the Stanton Yellowknife Hospital.

Confusion has arisen from use of the words *anesthesia' and .analgesia* in relation to pain control. Therefore, I would like to provide definitions of these terms and relate each of them to pain control:

'Anesthesia" is the loss of all feeling or sensation including, but not limited to, the sensation of pain. With general anesthesia, the patient is unconscious. Local anesthesia reduces or abolishes sensation, including some sensations of pain in a restricted part, while the patient remains conscious.

'Analgesia* refers specifically to reducing the sensation of pain; some analgesics also alter consciousness, to produce a 'floating" sensation.

The selection of what method is used to control pain depends on balancing the risk and benefits through a decision which is made between the patient and the attending physician. The selection is made taking into account the following:

a) General anesthesia produces full control of pain but commonly produces unpleasant side effects and, rarely, some serious complications; when used for abortion, it has been found to increase complications such as bleeding.

b) Local anesthesia has fewer complications than general anesthesia, but injections into the cervix are painful and local anesthesia of the cervix does not control pain arising from the body of the uterus.

c) Analgesics produce the fewest complications and provide a broad range of pain control, but there is variation from person to person in the degree of pain control achieved; other drugs may be given to reduce anxiety, because anxiety can reduce the effectiveness of analgesics.

Pain during an abortion procedure arises from dilation of the cervix, or neck of the uterus; from evacuation, emptying, of the uterus; and from cramping of the uterus after the procedure.

This is a reply to a question asked by Mr. Gargan on March 30th. The former Minister of Health was asked the number of abortions performed per year in the NWT and whether the NWT abortion rate is the highest in Canada.

The number of abortions reported for NWT women during 1990 was 335; 255 of these procedures were performed in the NWT, all of them at Stanton Yellowknife Hospital. The most current available data for other Canadian jurisdictions are for calendar year 1989. During 1989, 261 abortions were performed for NWT women. This represents 17.6 per cent of the number of NWT live births during 1989. The comparable figure for Canada as a whole is 18 per cent. Rates higher than those in the NWT were: Yukon, 28.3 per cent; British Columbia, 25.4 per cent; Ontario, 21.8 per cent.

Returns to oral questions. Item 5, oral questions. Mrs. Marie-Jewell.

Ms. Cournoyea.

Mr. Speaker, I know there has been a lot of business and a lot of changes in schedule, but the honourable Member was perhaps not in attendance at a meeting in which I did warn the Members, when the new dates were set as to when we were coming back, that Mr. Allooloo had previous commitments on the beginning of that week if we were going to come back.

Other cabinet Members readjusted their schedules. Mr. Allooloo did make that commitment to his constituents, and the information was given to the caucus.

Mrs. Marie-Jewell.

Can the Government Leader tell me whether it was the Minister's commitment to his constituents or the Minister's commitment to TFN?