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Your Income Is Your Biggest Asset.Almost Nobody Protects It.

If you're a business owner or self-employed and you couldn't work tomorrow, your income stops the same day. The mortgage, the payroll, and the bills keep coming. FinanceBridges connects Canadians like you with licensed independent advisors who protect the one thing everything else depends on.

A Canadian business owner at work
Why Business Owners Need This
When you work for yourself, there's no HR department quietly covering you.

The WCB Myth

WCB and WSIB only cover injuries that happen on the job. Most of what actually stops people from working doesn't. Cancer, heart attacks, strokes, mental illness, a back that gives out at home. None of it covered.

EI Falls Short

Self-employed Canadians can opt into EI special benefits, but you have to register a full year before you're allowed to claim. Most never do. And even if you did, the payment is capped and it runs out, usually well below what a business owner actually earns.

No Safety Net but the One You Build

No paid sick days. No employer disability plan. No backup. If you can't work, the income stops that day. Most business owners find this out at the worst possible moment.

A self-employed Canadian working
1 in 3Working Canadians will be off work for 90 days or more before age 65
$0Sick pay when you're the one signing the cheques
47%Canadians living paycheque to paycheque

Figures are general Canadian statistics and are provided for context only. They are not a prediction of your individual situation.

What It Looks Like on $80,000 a Year
One example, with the arithmetic run all the way to the end.
Example

You're self-employed. You earn $80,000 a year. A health problem keeps you out of work for 6 months. Nothing dramatic, nothing rare. Here's what that actually costs you.

What you normally bring in each month $6,667
Income that stops while you're off6 of the 12 months your $80,000 normally has to cover. −$40,000
Best case EI sickness benefitsA maximum of $729 a week for up to 26 weeks, and only if you registered with Service Canada at least 12 months before you claimed. +$18,954
What you're covering yourself $21,046

And that's the good version. Most self-employed Canadians never registered for EI, because you have to do it a full year before you need it. If that's you, the number isn't $21,046. It's the whole $40,000. Out of your savings, out of the business, or onto a line of credit you'll be paying back long after you're better.

Example only. Uses 2026 EI figures. Your own numbers depend on your earnings, your health, your province, and your situation. Nothing here is insurance, tax, or financial advice.

Coverage Built for People Who Work for Themselves
Three ways to keep the money coming in when you can't.

Critical Illness Insurance

Pays a lump sum if you're diagnosed with cancer, a heart attack, a stroke, or another covered condition. So you can focus on getting better instead of on the bills.

Disability Insurance

Replaces a portion of your income every month while you can't work because of illness or injury. Keeps your life intact and your savings where they belong.

Accident & Sickness Coverage

Bridges the short-term gaps, when something pulls you out of work for weeks instead of months. The stretch most people underestimate.

How FinanceBridges Works
We're not an insurance company. We're the bridge to the right advisor.
A Canadian business owner reviewing their options

You Tell Us Your Situation

A few quick questions about your work, your income, and what's already in place. Nothing to prepare.

We Match You With an Advisor

A licensed independent advisor in your province who works with business owners and self-employed Canadians every day. Then a 15-minute call, on your schedule.

You Get a Plan That Fits

Your advisor shops the Canadian market to find the right coverage at the right rate. No paperwork unless you decide to move forward.

Questions People Actually Ask

?What is income protection?

It's coverage that pays you while you're alive but can't work. Critical illness, disability, and accident and sickness coverage all sit under it. Life insurance pays your family after you die. This pays you when you survive but can't earn.

?I'm a business owner. Do I actually qualify?

Almost certainly. Incorporated, sole proprietor, contractor, commission-based, it doesn't matter. What matters is your health and your income, and that's exactly what a conversation with an advisor sorts out.

?Doesn't WCB or EI cover me?

Partly, and not the way most people think. WCB and WSIB only cover injuries that happen on the job. EI special benefits are available to self-employed Canadians, but you have to register with Service Canada at least 12 months before you can claim, so it's not something you can reach for once you're already sick. Even then the payment is capped and time-limited, and for most business owners it's a fraction of what they actually earn.

?What's the difference between this and life insurance?

Life insurance protects your family if you die. Income protection protects your family if you live and can't work. Most people are far more likely to need the second one, and far fewer have it.

?How long does the process take?

The first conversation is about 15 minutes. If you decide to move forward, your advisor handles the application with you. Most people are covered within a few weeks depending on the insurer and their health.

?What does it cost?

FinanceBridges costs you nothing. The coverage itself depends on your age, health, income, and what you choose. Nobody can give you a real number over a website, which is exactly why the advisor conversation exists.

?Do the advisors work for FinanceBridges?

No. The advisors are licensed and independent. FinanceBridges connects you with them, we don't employ them and we don't sell insurance ourselves. They work for you, not for a single insurance company.

Who We Are
The short version, because you're probably just checking we're real.

FinanceBridges is a Canadian company with one job: connecting business owners and self-employed people to a licensed independent advisor who actually understands how they earn.

We started it because the people who need income protection most are the ones the industry keeps missing. If you're on payroll, someone hands you a benefits package on day one. If you sign the cheques, nobody hands you anything. You're expected to figure it out yourself, usually while you're busy running the thing that pays for everything.

We don't sell insurance and we don't employ advisors. We're the bridge. You tell us your situation, we match you with a licensed independent advisor in your province, and from there it's between you and them. No cost to you, and no obligation to buy anything.

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