"Proving" the time spent with PR status

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Hello guys, I hope you are all doing great. Although my question is
long, please bear with me.

Please note that I am re-posting this question based on the advice of one of the good members of this forum.

I landed in Canada in September of
2008, and I hold a PR card. I've been here for approximately a year and a
half I'm staying at my brother's house (who has a citizenship) and I've
been applying for jobs online but to no avail. Although I was
depressed, I always thought that hey, at least I'm spending time here
and getting closer to acquiring a citizenship (which I am in dire need
of). Now, the problem:

When I first entered Canada, I had the
Canadian visa pasted on my passport as well as the date of entry stamped
on it. My passport expired in April of 2009, and I never used it except
for entering Canada (I never left here). Lately, a friend told me that I
cannot prove my stay in Canada since I have no job, and when I told her
that my passport was expired and that it had no visas, dates of
entry/exit stamped on it which meant that I couldn't have left the
country--she still thought that this was not proof as I could have
gotten a new passport and travelled with it all over the world and when
the time came, I could show the old passport to the authorities in order
to trick them into thinking that I never left in the first place.

This
was very shocking of course, because the idea of me wasting a year and a
half and gaining nothing is depressing, to say the least.

Now, I
am applying for a new passport, which I will use to travel to see my
family (I will spend 2 months out of Canada) which means that the
duration of time spent outside will show in the new passport.

My
question is this: When the time comes that the authorities will
calculate the duration of my physical presence in Canada, will the old
passport (which shows no travelling whatsoever), combined with the new
passport (which shows only 2 months spent outside Canada) prove that I
spent this whole time in Canada, or can they say "no, this is not enough
proof"?

Keep in mind that I have all the e-mails I sent to
companies in Canada, and I went a few times to the doctor's office where
I got my OHIP health card swiped... As I said before, I have no job, no visa card, no major bank transactions, and all bills are made out to my brother since I live with him. Please help me...