Any part of a day actually physically IN Canada counts toward RO compliance. So the day a trucker departs Canada, and the day the trucker returns to Canada, both count as a day IN Canada. Even if the trucker only stays in Canada one full day in between trips, that would add up to three days a week, 150 days a year, minimum, times five that adds up to 750 over five years, enough to meet the RO.
If the trucker is in fact based in Canada, typically that would also mean long weekends and holidays in Canada, adding more days that count as actually physically present in Canada. So it really should be EASY for a trucker based in Canada to meet the minimum RO. WHICH IS ONE REASON WHY FALLING SHORT (just in terms of days actually present, with no credit for days outside Canada) WILL TEND TO RAISE A RED FLAG.
It really should be easy . . . again, so long as the PR trucker is in fact based in Canada. No need to rely on credit for time working abroad.
But there appears to be no shortage of PRs not really based in Canada trying to massage the situation to keep Canadian PR status (one of the more recently publicized crooked consultant cases involves a consultant who was facilitating businesses for this purpose, and he purportedly made many millions of dollars doing this . . . but he has been sentenced to seven years in prison, and IRCC appears to be investigating nearly every client he ever had).
Among those who make the effort to massage things to keep PR status, many if not most tend to look at and apply the rules with a strong bias in their favour, overlooking how the rules actually work in practice. It seems it was a lot easier to get away with it in the past. Not so easy these days.
