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Zuckerberg will be invited to the meeting in Canada, but Facebook said it had no comment on whether he would attend.

Zimmer said he couldn’t go into details about what the committee will discuss before the meeting was officially scheduled, but said “it’s looking exciting what we’re planning to do.” He expects that the countries who attended the first meeting will be invited again and potentially more countries could be in attendance this time.

The grand committee was assembled after countries around the world struggled to get key players like Zuckerberg to testify as part of legislative-branch investigations into the Cambridge Analytica breach of personal information that was exposed last year. Eighty-seven million people worldwide were caught up in the incident, with about 600,000 Canadians affected.

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In Canada, the House privacy committee pursued its own investigation into Cambridge Analytica and had been working in tandem with the British digital committee. By combining those two investigations, along with those of seven other countries, the politicians hoped to give the Facebook CEO a single venue to testify.

“I am growing increasingly troubled by the lack of respect Mr. Zuckerberg and Facebook continue to show our nations,” Zimmer said at the time said in response to Zuckerberg’s rejection.

The co-operation between the UK committee and the Canadian has been a key feature of the investigation, as the two countries grappled with tech companies that do business on a massive, global scale. Much of the committee’s dealing centred on a tiny Canadian political consulting firm, AggregateIQ, that was linked to Cambridge Analytica and has been accused of breaching campaign spending rules in the Brexit referendum.