Since news came to light recently of killer Terri-Lynne McClintic being transferred to the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge in Maple Creek there's been a lot of outcry.

McClintic was convicted of first-degree murder in the brutal rape and murder of eight-year-old Tori Stafford in 2010 in southwest Ontario.

Canada's public safety minister Ralph Goodale said he immediately ordered a review upon learning of the transfer.

"Everybody empathizes with the family. The grief that they have gone through is absolutely appalling. And that is why, as soon as this situation came to my attention, within hours I ordered a review to make sure number one - that the policies were followed - and equally important, number two - are those policies the right ones? Let's seriously look at them all going right back to the moment in time where she was reclassified as medium security in 2014, and let's look at all the circumstances and make sure at the end of the day, we're accomplishing two objectives - number one - we're keeping Canadians safe, and number two- making sure that justice is done."

The Healing Lodge is a minimum-to-medium-security facility that is run by the Correctional Service of Canada.

Goodale does not have power to reverse the transfer.

"If you get to the point where political decisions are taken by the minister saying 'I want this person dealt with in that way, but this other person in a different way, and by the way those three guys over there get out on free pass because they're friends of mine." You don't properly administer the justice by personalizing it and politicizing it. That leads to very dangerous consequences," Goodale said. "What we've got to do here is make sure the policy is correct for dealing not just with this case, but with every case. And that's what we're working very hard to achieve here."

McClintic's then-lover Michael Rafferty was found guilty of kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder of Stafford.