As more students enter postsecondary education without the numeracy and literacy skills necessary for success, Ontario colleges are facing a challenge. While enrolment-based funding drives the colleges to seek growth to ensure financial stability, the quality assurance mechanism leads them to divert millions of dollars from their operating budgets to support at-risk students through a multitude of remediation interventions. Improving the effectiveness of remediation supports is worth much attention, but it will not eliminate the need for continued investment. Overall, a system-wide funding mechanism change may be required to help colleges strike a balance between the incentives for growth and quality.