MONTREAL — A Boucherville, Que., man is frustrated he can't get a $53 Montreal parking ticket tossed even though he says he has proof he was on a plane when the ticket was issued and his car was parked in his driveway, 20 km from where the alleged infraction occurred.

Yves Gauthier says he's the only person with keys to his car and they were in his pocket on the plane on April 24. He says there's no way his truck could have been parked illegally on Ontario Street, as indicated on the ticket.

The ticket arrived in the mail a month later.

He's made repeated calls to the City of Montreal and its parking agency to try to get the ticket scrapped, but with no luck. Gauthier says both advised him he should challenge the ticket in court.

He says it's not fair he should have to go to court because a parking agent screwed up. "My case is going to cost taxpayers money," he said in French. "A judge's time isn't free."