text: Get real.. Bob Stanfield was a brilliant and erudite man. He  graduated from  Dalhousie in  economics and political science with highest honours, and got his law degree at Harvard. He was the first Canadian to edit  the Harvard Law review. and was the premier of  Nova Scotia for eleven years.
  
  Mr Stanfields distinguished career and intellectual accomplishment does not seem to resemble in any way Mr Scheers brief turn in the insurance industry  before signing on with the Reform Party.
  
  But then Mr Stanfield led a very different party.