Susan Blanchett

Founder and CEO, Origen Air · 1 appearance on the record.

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Susan Blanchet is the founder and CEO of Victoria, British Columbia-based cleantech startup Origen Air, which manufactures commercial indoor air purification systems integrating mechanical filtration with genetically modified plants. Before launching Origen Air in 2019, she practiced environmental and civil litigation for 14 years, including serving on the Province of British Columbia's Climate Action Legal Team.

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1 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Susan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Blanchett: Regular indoor plants do not clean the air

“Plants actually don't clean the air. We think they do, but they don't.”

Susan Blanchett Feb 11, 2021 ▶ 20:02 They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said9 Episodes1

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Insight

Blanchett: Good leaders should never have to fire employees

“Because the book said, like, good leaders should never have to fire someone. If you have to fire someone, you're the one who has done something wrong. Like, as a leader, it's my responsibility to make sure that my staff are performing, and if they aren't, I'm …”

Susan Blanchett Feb 11, 2021 ▶ 34:28 They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed

Assertion Partly supported

Blanchett: Origen Air's purifier kills COVID in under four seconds

“This is part of an air purifier, which can actually kill COVID in under four seconds. And take out carcinogens from the air.”

Susan Blanchett Feb 11, 2021 ▶ 3:11 They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Blanchet's employer spent eight months seeking cause before firing her

“They'd gone through it for hundreds of hours, my files, my hours, And could not find anything wrong. And it culminated in about nine months later, getting called into office and being let go without cause. So they tried for eight months to find cause to fire m…”

Susan Blanchett Feb 11, 2021 ▶ 11:11 They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed

Assertion Supported

Blanchett: Regular indoor plants do not clean the air

“Plants actually don't clean the air. We think they do, but they don't.”

Susan Blanchett Feb 11, 2021 ▶ 20:02 They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Blanchet found no Canadian precedents for female-on-female workplace discrimination

“And the sad thing, I could not find one case and I looked for weeks and hours every day of a female on female discrimination in the legal, in the law world. There is not a case. Well, I found one actually. I found one not in Canada, in the United States, and t…”

Susan Blanchett Feb 11, 2021 ▶ 24:13 They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Blanchet's solo legal case was reassigned to nine staff after her leave

“When I came back 10 months later, there were four lawyers, three legal assistants, and two legal secretaries on the same file. The one I did by myself for two years.”

Susan Blanchett Feb 11, 2021 ▶ 13:41 They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Blanchet: Only About 10% of Realtors Make Good Money

“There's maybe 10% that are making good money and the rest are struggling.”

Susan Blanchett Feb 11, 2021 ▶ 17:02 They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed

Assertion Partly supported

Blanchett: UW genetically modified plants proven in published study to clean air

“He had found these genetically modified plants at the University of Washington that had been proven in a double blind study and published in environmental science and technology journal to clean air.”

Susan Blanchett Feb 11, 2021 ▶ 20:08 They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed

Disclosure

Blanchet abruptly quit her real estate career to preserve her legal standing

“So immediately to save my legal career, I quit my real estate career. So after two years of building a very great real estate practice, I walked away from it in a matter of days.”

Susan Blanchett Feb 11, 2021 ▶ 8:12 They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
They Spent 8 Months Looking for a Reason to Fire Her — and Failed	Feb 11, 2021	25m

Susan Blanchett

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