I haven't consulted with the governments, but I am a Manitoban. I grew up in Manitoba, and I was there when the seats were reduced and it wasn't an issue, because I sensed, as I think other Manitobans did, that the important point wasn't how many seats you had, but the proportionality.
I think that's how Saskatchewanians responded. They lost seats more dramatically than other province in Confederation. They went from 21 seats to 13 seats. I wrote my thesis on prairie politics, and I never encountered this as an issue at any time in the first three-quarters of the 20th century.