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It’s a question of which would be worse, the B.C. Lions say.

Saturday, against the Roughriders, the Lions will play with the B.C. Place roof open. The team confirmed the news on Friday.

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You look outside, and all one sees hanging over Vancouver is orange-tinted haze, as if the Lower Mainland had been transplanted to Mars.

Environment Canada’s air quality forecast for Vancouver rates Saturday as a 7, at the lower end of the high-risk range. In that range, the general population should “consider reducing or rescheduling strenuous activities outdoors if you experience symptoms such as coughing and throat irritation,” Environment Canada says.

But closing the roof might make things worse, according to Lions spokesman Jamie Cartmell.

“Worse if it’s closed and they draw outside air into the stadium with nowhere for it to go,” he wrote in an email Friday.

A similar situation arose in 2015, when thick smoke from wildfires was hanging above the city on the same day as the Women’s World Cup final. The game was played with the roof open that day as well.