First ministers from all Canadian provinces and territories will meet beginning Wednesday in New Brunswick, and with Greyhound stopping most of its western Canada routes, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe expects transportation to be a topic.

Saskatchewan's budget released in March 2017 meant the closure of the Saskatchewan Transportation Company. Come this fall, Greyhound will no longer run routes in Saskatchewan, as ridership decreased signficantly for the company as a whole - especially in the province of Saskatchewan.

The Saskatchewan government doesn't plan to provide any kind of subsidy for Greyhound or another private company to operate.

"With respect to Saskatchewan, we won't be providing funding for Greyhound," Moe said. "It would be our hope that... the private sector will have a look at these main routes."

Moe added that he isn't of the opinion the federal government should step up and provide funding.

"It would be difficult for us to stand and make an ask of the federal government, understanding that we found the subsidy that we were providing for our provincial bus service to be too large years into the future. But we will have those discussions at the Council of Federation meeting; I look forward to those discussions as well. We'll see what type of decisions that we can come up with."

The Council of Federation runs in St. Andrews, N.B. Wednesday through Friday.

October 30 will be the last day Greyhound Canada will operate their busing service in Canada's four most western provinces.

Greyhound's Regional Vice President for Western Canada, Peter Hamel, said that they experienced a decrease in ridership after the STC shut down.

"What happens here is that we primarily operated on the Trans Canada and the Yellowhead. We did not do any other regional areas in there, so in fact the opposite was in effect, the feed and flow from the regional locations that were operated by the STC certainly impacted our ridership even further."

Hamel talked about just how much ridership has dropped in recent years.

"In the four regions that it's impacting here it's almost at 41% since 2010, and in Saskatchewan specifically it's one of the hardest regions hit that we've seen a decline of 55% in passenger ridership since 2010."

Hamel added that two of the four provinces, B.C. and Manitoba, have already said they won't be providing any assistance to the Greyhound service.