ACP2E-3028: Paylater message not showing in PDP for Canadian paypal merchant account

Author: aplapana

app/code/Magento/Paypal/view/frontend/web/js/view/paylater.js

@@ -50,11 +50,6 @@ define([
             let buyerCountry = customerData.get('paypal-buyer-country');
 
             this.buyerCountry = buyerCountry().code;
-
-            if (!this.buyerCountry) {
-                this.attributes['data-pp-placement'] = null;
-            }
-
             this._super()
                 .observe(['amount']);
 

app/code/Magento/Paypal/view/frontend/web/template/paylater.html

@@ -4,17 +4,19 @@
  * See COPYING.txt for license details.
  */
 -->
-<div data-pp-message data-bind="attr: {
-        'class': getAttribute('class'),
-        'data-pp-amount': amount,
-        'data-pp-placement': getAttribute('data-pp-placement'),
-        'data-pp-style-layout': getAttribute('data-pp-style-layout'),
-        'data-pp-style-logo-type': getAttribute('data-pp-style-logo-type'),
-        'data-pp-style-logo-position': getAttribute('data-pp-style-logo-position'),
-        'data-pp-style-text-color': getAttribute('data-pp-style-text-color'),
-        'data-pp-style-text-size': getAttribute('data-pp-style-text-size'),
-        'data-pp-style-color': getAttribute('data-pp-style-color'),
-        'data-pp-style-ratio': getAttribute('data-pp-style-ratio'),
-        'data-pp-buyercountry': buyerCountry
-    }" ></div>
+<div data-bind="if: buyerCountry">
+    <div data-pp-message data-bind="attr: {
+            'class': getAttribute('class'),
+            'data-pp-amount': amount,
+            'data-pp-placement': getAttribute('data-pp-placement'),
+            'data-pp-style-layout': getAttribute('data-pp-style-layout'),
+            'data-pp-style-logo-type': getAttribute('data-pp-style-logo-type'),
+            'data-pp-style-logo-position': getAttribute('data-pp-style-logo-position'),
+            'data-pp-style-text-color': getAttribute('data-pp-style-text-color'),
+            'data-pp-style-text-size': getAttribute('data-pp-style-text-size'),
+            'data-pp-style-color': getAttribute('data-pp-style-color'),
+            'data-pp-style-ratio': getAttribute('data-pp-style-ratio'),
+            'data-pp-buyercountry': buyerCountry
+        }" ></div>
+</div>