B
Evidence Grade B
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76%
76% -- small business owners without a succession plan for Canadian small business owners (2026)
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76%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
TD Waterhouse
Primary
Tier C
http://www.warrenbdc.com/exit-strategy.html ↗
Source Article
Exit Strategy
Original Research
TD Waterhouse
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Methodology
TD Waterhouse Business Succession Poll, cited by secondary source
Methodology documented
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Industrymarketing
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Canadian small business owners: 76% small business owners without a succession plan. Source: TD Waterhouse (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/canadian-smb-no-succession-plan
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/canadian-smb-no-succession-plan" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>76%</strong> -- small business owners without a succession plan for Canadian small business owners<br><small>Source: TD Waterhouse (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/canadian-smb-no-succession-plan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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