NDP Leader Tom Mulcair took a swipe at Justin Trudeau Tuesday over comments the prime minister made the day before, accusing Trudeau of hypocrisy and saying his comments on the idea of a marijuana amnesty don’t make any sense.

Trudeau gave a talk on marijuana legalization Monday where he shared a story about how his father used his connections to help his brother fight possession charges.

“Trudeau admitted that his own brother got off because his family was rich and well-connected,” Mulcair said at a press conference in Ottawa.

“That’s the way it is for someone like Mr. Trudeau … When you’re of that background and you’re privileged and you’ve always had everything given to you and you are treated differently — that’s what he’s used to.

“He doesn’t find it all abnormal that he can admit to smoking marijuana when he was a member of Parliament and at the same time say the law is the law and you will be prosecuted if you smoke marijuana. That’s abject hypocrisy by Justin Trudeau.”

Monday night, Trudeau participated in a Vice Canada talk where he was asked by a Toronto-area man with a pot possession conviction what he would do about amnesty for those with criminal records for possession of a substance the Liberal party is legalizing.

Trudeau then told an anecdote about his late brother Michel Trudeau being charged with pot possession, sayijg his father Pierre Elliot Trudeau managed to use his connections to make the charges “go away.”

Trudeau told the story to point out how people from different strata of society — especially minorities — will experience the same criminal charges in starkly different, life-changing ways. Many suggested his comments were tactless, since they emphasized his family’s privileged status.

“My dad said ‘OK, don’t worry about it,’ reached out to his friends in the legal community, got the best possible lawyer and was very confident that we were going to be able to make those charges go away,” Trudeau explained. “We were able to do that because we had resources, my dad had a couple connections, and we were confident that my little brother wasn’t going to be saddled with a criminal record for life.”

“However, people from minority communities, marginalized communities without economic resources are not going to have that kind of option…to clear their name in the justice system,” he continued. “And that’s one of the fundamental unfairnesses of this current system: it effects … different communities in a different way, and Canada’s supposed to be fair for everyone.”

Trudeau later hinted his government would look at the issue of a marijuana amnesty once a legal framework is in place, but didn’t go further than that.

He said the government would “take steps to look at what we can do for people who have criminal records for something that will no longer be criminal.”

Mulcair, whose party has been pushing for immediate marijuana decriminalization to put an end to possession charges, said Trudeau’s comments were unclear and that it doesn’t make sense for the Liberals to say they’ll only “magically” try to deal with possession charges once recreational pot is legal.

“We’re still going to be prosecuting tens of thousands of young, racialized Canadians for personal use of marijuana while we’re legalizing,” he said.

On Monday night, Trudeau said that decriminalization wouldn’t meet his policy goals of putting a dent in crime, and would only be a half measure towards a safe regulatory system.

“If you’re decriminalizing, the only people allowed to sell it will be criminals themselves,” he said. “You’re not creating a legal framework for producing it.”

Trudeau said he will instead focus on getting legalization “right” before moving on to issues like amnesty.