It's the government's fault with all their illegal parking spaces. Parking fines are nothing but a hwy robbery by the State. People have a problem the state should not create more of problem for them, they should help to solve it.
There should be no parking on major street what so ever. Traffic is too congested in the GTA just creates stress and pedestrians come out from between parked cars and drivers can not see them.
There should be free parking on side streets to allow people to park. Toronto is too congested because of corrupt city planners. One-ways streets blocking out entire neighbourhoods is another problem.