Obama touts plan to 'train a million Baracks and Michelles'

Former President Barack Obama shared his vision for the future with a Canadian crowd Monday, promoting his Obama Foundation and its mission to "train a million Baracks and Michelles" to impact the international stage.

What are the details?

Speaking to 13,500 people in Winnipeg, Obama explained his mission to create a "university for social change," the Washington Examiner reported.

"If we could form a network of those young leaders, not just in the United States, but around the world, then we got something," the former president said, "if we can train a million Baracks and Michelles who are running around thinking they can change the world," hope is achievable."

According to CNN, Obama made a similar declaration at a conference in Japan last year, when he said, "After I left office, what I realized is that the Obama Foundation could potentially create a platform for young, up-and-coming leaders, both in the United States and all around the world to come together, meet together, create a digital platform where they could exchange information."

"If I could do that effectively," Obama continued, "then I would create a hundred, or a thousand, or a million young Barack Obamas or Michelle Obamas."

Anything else?

Obama did not mention President Donald Trump by name during his Winnipeg address, but according to the CBC, he told the sold-out crowd he wasn't sure if America's leadership is equipped to handle a major catastrophe like the financial crisis of 2007-2008.

"If we had a crisis today, I'm concerned that we, at least in the United States, may not be in the habit of trying figure things out in a common sense, practical way," he said.

The Huffington Post reported that Obama explained, "I think the danger that we have sometimes now in our politics in the United States, and what I'm seeing internationally, is us being driven by passions, and (we) are disconnected from facts, that in fact deliberately are shielded from facts and reason and logic."

The 44th president also took a swipe at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), mocking him for "not cooperating" with Obama's signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act.