Tiered justice?

Dear editor:
There was an article in the Fort Frances Times last Wednesday (Nov. 24) which was headlined “Hunters fined for firing a gun out of a boat.”
This article went on to say that two Iowa men were fined $1,500 each for shooting at a moose decoy from a boat. Their hunting privileges also were revoked for one year.
Last year around this time, two district residents were charged with the same offence. Each paid $1,500 for discharging a fire arm from a boat, plus $1,000 and $300, respectively, for unlawfully using a boat for the purpose of killing wildlife.
They also were fined an additional $1,023 in victim fine surcharges (whatever that means?), plus their hunting privileges were revoked for one year and two years, respectively.
What is happening to our justice system? Are we not all equal? Why the difference?
Thank you for allowing me to express my views to this matter.
Signed,
Adrian Versluis
Morson, Ont.