I have to say that I love this museum. I thought it was great before but after comparing with some of the other fine arts museum in Canada, I have to give it a 5 stars. First thing is that the collection is huge. What you see in 1 visit is not even the full collection since they often have some in restauration or simply in rotation.
The other thing is that the quality of the temporary collections that the museum can attract is actually really good.
Unfortunately the museum is no longer free for the permanent exposition but it's still worth the price. Even more when you consider that the fine arts museum in other cities cost as much but for an expositions that are a lot smaller