returning to canada on PR

Hi

our family got our PR cards after our first landing in Canada in 2009 July. we were in Canada only for a short time and has been out of the country till now. Myself and my daughter are planning to return to Canada by May,2012 and my husband will join us later.
i would like to know whether we will have any problem in entering the country without my husband as he is the primary applicant. Please help. He is planning to join us by June.
We have been away for almost 3 yrs. will this cause any problem?

Thanks

Mostly ditto.

If you return to Canada before the third year anniversary of your landing, there should be no problem. May is sufficient. Of course this will not allow you to spend much time outside Canada for the next two years.

Your husband will be cutting it close if he is to follow much later.

Remember: you must be able to spend 730 days in-Canada by the fifth anniversary of the day you landed.
The other way of looking at this is that a new PR cannot be absent from Canada for 1095 or more days prior to the fifth year anniversary of the day of landing (date on PR card is not the date that matters, actual date of landing is). If the total number of days a PR is absent reach 1096 before the fifth anniversary, the PR is in breach of the residency obligation and becomes inadmissible as of then. Again, dates of validity on the PR card are not what matters.

Whether your status as PRs is conditional or not depends on the terms of the PR that initially granted.