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Of course Canada has the legal authority over Facebook's activities in Canada. Facebook not having any datacenters there just makes enforcement slightly harder.

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What activities do they do in Canada?

Provide advertising services, which I'm sure they happily exchange for $CAD

Arguably that's Canadian companies doing business in America, not the other way around.

Either way, Canada has jurisdiction.

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