During the summer, during afternoon sundays this is the place to be. In winter except drug dealers, joggers and the Montreal beer runners no one goes there, or almost no one.
In the Summer this is like the heart beat of Montreal you will find drum circle, arts and crafts people, mid evil warriors (there is an RD&D area above the tam-tams), acrobats (a little above the statue doing slack line, juggling and other amazing things) and of course the majority of the people relaxing in the sun like turtles trying to absorb the summer heat and enjoy life