If the jury is still out regarding whether would-be Tory boss Kellie Leitch — she of the immigrant “values” tests — deserves to be called “Canada’s Trump,” we at least have a pretty clear idea of who’s “Canada’s Hillary.”

On Tuesday, The Globe and Mail blew the lid off an apparent “cash-for-access” fundraiser involving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and the parallels with America’s recent presidential also-ran are eerie.

Like the Clintons, the Trudeau family has its very own save-the-world NGO — the “Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation” — run by a board full of various washed-up but well-connected politicians, bureaucrats and CEOs (Justin himself only quit in 2015).

Like the Clinton Foundation, it seems to exist primarily to keep the family brand in good graces through vague and innocuous activism. And like the Clinton Foundation, it seems to have no problem swallowing large sums of foreign cash.

Which is exactly what the Globe says they got from Zhang Bin, president of the China Cultural Industry Association, an authorized organ of the Chinese state that lobbies abroad for Beijing’s interests.

Zhang apparently spearheaded a $200,000 donation to the Trudeau foundation shortly after attending a Liberal Party fundraiser last May, which included a who’s-who of the globalist Chinese elite. In addition, the Globe reported, $50,000 was donated to pay for a statue of Pierre Trudeau, and another $750,000 will go to fund University of Montreal Faculty of Law scholarships.

Canadian campaign finance laws forbid foreign donations and explicit quid-pro-quo, but creative minds can get around this.

The Globe reports the fundraiser in question also featured the attendance of Shenglin Xian, boss of something called Wealth One Bank, which aims to help Canada’s “Chinese community” with their evidently distinctive banking needs. In July, it received authorization from the Trudeau government to begin operations and opened its first branches in Vancouver and Toronto a couple months later.

Anyone paying attention will be well aware of this country’s slow-motion transformation into an overseas safe space for the wealth of China’s nouveau-riche commie kleptocrats, which organizations like Wealth One obviously aim to serve. Liberals, like Trudeau, are disposed to regard this as completely untroubling, since their ideology deems the “rise of China” as something glamorous and exciting, mostly because they assume it’ll help curb the power of the wicked United States.

Ironic then, that our prime minister now finds himself mired in a scandal so utterly reminiscent of one that just finished enrapturing Americans.

I’ve often said that every criticism Donald Trump made of the elite in his country could be easily applied to Canada — all you have to do was dial it up a few degrees.

Our Ottawa swamp is in desperate need of a draining.

— McCullough is a political commentator and cartoonist from Vancouver.