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Jason Luan isn’t serving up pablum. He isn’t using weasel words.

He tells us he’s willing to battle the loud and persistent voices of the politically correct if that’s where the rubber hits the road.

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Luan, a Calgary member of the legislature who worked for the city doling out dough to social agencies in a previous life, is the Kenney government’s new point man handling the addictions file, the political equivalent of working in a bomb disposal unit.

Luan confirms experts will do a look-see of the seven existing drug consumption sites and the three possible future sites in the province to see how they impact the community. They’re aiming for results in the fall.

The sites are funded by the province. Sites having a nasty impact on the population could lose their money or be told to clean up their act — or else.

By the way, Luan is not buying the line these sites are the be-all and the end-all.

“They just keep talking about keeping you alive, reviving you from an overdose. Then we’ll do it again tomorrow and we’ll do it 10 times the day after tomorrow,” says Luan.