Canada’s largest technology company has, until this month, maintained a low profile in the United States.
That shroud of gentle anonymity has dissipated, however.
America is now officially pissed off at Montreal-based CGI, and the company is hunkering down under a barrage of questions — including the one asked on air by a CNBC host: “Should we immediately go to war with Canada over the CGI thing?”
The “thing” is the error-plagued national website for Obamacare, healthcare.gov, and the large sum of money CGI was paid to build it. The site is, by most reports, still virtually inoperable.
Users hit a wall of errors when they try to price plans or find out what subsidies they may qualify for. By pretty much all accounts, the launch of the website has been a complete fiasco.
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