Just a reminder that this isn't just Canada, it's an international committee representing countries totalling half a billion citizens. There's no question that

Just a reminder that this isn't just Canada, it's an international committee representing countries totalling half a billion citizens. There's no question that Facebook does business in Canada or any of the other countries in question. Facebook is international and has set up satellite offices around the globe in order to have a presence in these countries. It was my understanding that their growth in these regions and others was hugely important to them. I think this goes beyond the logistics of "is it reasonable for a CEO to bother meeting with legislators in every country in which it does business" and is a matter of whether Facebook is going to be answerable at all internationally, and what the optics look like of an American company doing business in other nations where it will not make top level executives available to answer important questions. Does this mean that Facebook simply won't make its top level executives available to any other country? Is there a population threshold? Will Zuckerberg or Sandberg only meet with Presidents/Vice-Presidents, etc? I can't help but feel like Facebook is held to a hugely different standard in these cases. I don't think people would think twice about expecting Mary Barra, for example, to travel to Canada to be answerable about GM vehicles being sold into Canadian territory if Canadian officials had concerns. It also seems plain as day to me that Facebook's top brass simply do not want to answer these questions. They would rather send representatives to face the tough questions on their behalf, which are problematic on their own, leading to troubling and unsatisfying public exchanges [1]. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI4cBp5DfZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI4cBp5DfZc