You will likely get reported at the border as well if you don't have a valid PR card. You will be able to enter. Clearly they have realised that you were not in the country if they asked for your passport information for 2016 and 2017. I don't understand why you suddenly tried to renew your PR card now. If you were renewing it and qualified for it to be renewed you would have had to send it in in 2015.