08/27/2026
I've been in this business a long time and still learned something recording this one.
You can now buy a life insurance policy at Costco in Canada. Or on your phone, in about five minutes. And honestly, for a lot of people that beats what they have right now, which is nothing at all.
But our guest told us about a young family who got most of the way through an online application, balked at the blood test, and emailed to cancel. Thirty-two dollars a month. They passed away not long after. Nobody was on the other end of that email to call them back.
That story is the whole episode. Martin and I go about half an hour on where buying insurance online genuinely works, and where it quietly doesn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIKivmImlDg