A child murderer being moved to an open gated facility in the area is garnering a debate in the nation's capital and in southwestern Saskatchewan.

Terri-Lynne McClintic plead guilty to the murder of Tori Stafford, an eight-year-old girl, in 2010 and was put into a maximum security prison to serve her sentence of life in prison without a chance of parole for 25 years.

After initially being placed into a maximum security prison, McClintic was moved to The Grand Valley Institution for Women, a maximum, medium and minimum security prison in Ontario.

McClintic was transferred again just recently, this time to a minimum to medium security prison, and not without a large amount of controversy.

On Wednesday in the House of Commons, a heated debate saw words exchanged between the Conservative and Liberal sides of the aisle.

The Conservatives expressed their outrage at the decision to move McClintic, while the Liberals made their argument to let the justice system take its course.

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer expressed his wishes for Justin Trudeau to overturn the transfer, as being at the security facility that lacked a fence would give ample opportunity for escape.

When asked for comment from the opposition, Liberal Member of Parlement for Eglinton - Lawrence Marco Mendicino said that Trudeau did not have the authority to do so.

"These are decisions which are taken by Correctional Services Canada, there is nothing in the law about the Prime Minister having ultimate responsibility for these decisions, there are powers under the act that allows for the Minister of Public Saftey to order a review, and this is what minister (Ralph) Goodale has done in this instance."

Goodale asked for the review after questions of the validity of the transfer were raised.

Explaining why he thought the review was a good idea, Mendicino stated that it would double check the public's safety, as well as that the process that Correctional Services Canada used when deciding to send McClintic to the facility.

"It's to ensure that we have the right criteria in place, it's to ensure that those criteria are being applied, and that is to ensure that we are keeping the public safe."

Expanding further on the review, Mendicino said that the government owe the review to the family of McClintic's victim.

"What's important is that it's carried out in a manner that is thoughtful and deliberate, because we owe it to the family of Tori Stafford to conduct this review, and to have the minister (Goodale) covey the results of that review in a time and in a way that is transparent so they can be understood by the family of Tori Stafford and all Canadians."

Mendicino also said that heated debate brought up some distressing details of the murder and said that he, and some of his colleges across the aisle, had issues with the way the graphic evidence was presented.

"I'm not in anyway diminishing the importance of asking tough questions during question period, that's what it's there for, but there's a way to strike a balance to ask those tough questions but at the same time having some regard for victims and surviving family members."