A new retractable roof for the Big O

The Quebec government has greenlighted a new roof for Montreal's Olympic Stadium — one which it hopes might actually be retractable.

The Couillard cabinet decided last month to replace the current roof with a new one, which would cost anywhere from $200 million to $300 million.

The government is also looking into the possibility of installing a roof made of material that would allow it to retract — for the first time since the completion of the tower in the late 1980s.

The Olympic Stadium was originally designed to have a retractable Kevlar roof, which it did when the tower was finally completed a decade after the Montreal Olympics. But multiple problems led to the roof being fixed.

The current roof is a fixed roof, which has been showing multiple signs of wear and tear as it reaches the end of its lifespan.