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Halifax - U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Halifax on Wednesday to thank Atlantic Canadians for opening their doors to stranded Americans after the Sept. 11 attacks three years ago. "I am really glad to be in Canada and I am really glad to be among friends," Bush told his audience at the Pier 21 museum on the Halifax waterfront, the building where hundreds of thousands of immigrants first stepped onto Canadian soil between 1928 and 1971. On Sept. 11, 2001, the president said, "Canadians came to the aid of men and women and children who were worried and confused and had no place to sleep ... and you asked for nothing in return. "Thank you for your kindness to Americans in an hour of need... As he welcomed the president, Prime Minister Martin recounted stories of friendships formed between the 33,000 passengers stranded in Canada in September of 2001 and their Canadian hosts. Halifax - U.S. President George W. Bush suggested Canada should take a more active role in his "war on terrorism" in a speech he gave in Halifax. Three years after the worst-ever attacks against civilians on American soil, Bush said Canada had a duty to do more to ward off potential threats to North America. He raised the example of a former prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, who did not wait for Hitler's Nazis to attack Canada before sending troops to fight in the Second World War.
