Philip Arthur Gaglardi (January 13, 1913 – September 23, 1995) was a politician in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Gaglardi was born in Mission, British Columbia as one of eleven children to poor Italian immigrants.
To demonstrate that the ferry was too slow for government business, Gaglardi engaged a pilot friend to fly him to Prince Rupert in a Learjet, and got there before Bennett did.
Gaglardi earned the nickname "Flying Phil" from getting speeding tickets when driving in large-engined cars around the province, checking on the progress of road construction, or in his own words "testing the curves."
In the 1963 election Davie Fulton, who had retired from federal politics to lead the BC Progressive Conservative Party, ran against Gaglardi in his riding of Kamloops.
He spoke publicly about "deadbeats", vowed to become "the roughest, toughest, most effective welfare minister the world has ever known",[11] and created an agency to assist the indigent in getting jobs.
During the 1972 election, he predicted that Bennett would resign soon after winning the election, accused the premier of being "an old man who doesn't understand what is happening with the young people of this province", described the cabinet as "filled with square pegs in round holes", and stated, "I'm the only real choice for the job.
He led a fledgling municipal political party called Team Action whose candidates won a majority of the city council.
Gaglardi Way, a major thoroughfare in Burnaby connecting the Trans-Canada Highway to Simon Fraser University, is named for him.