 Partly as a result of this ruling, Winnipeg police began videotaping their talks with suspects the following year.Kennedy gave a stiff, 13-year sentence to a heroin distributor in 1994, and was quoted as saying, "[m]any of the ills of society, the destruction of our societal fabric, comes because of the illicit use of drugs".In 2003, he gave a 28-month sentence to a man convicted of trafficking ecstasy.