You'd need to get a police certificate if you've lived in other countries outside Canada, in this case could be your home country you lived at before coming to Canada. On the checklist, it will ask you we're you've lived in the past 10 years.Submitting PR app for someone, is there any time where a police clearance from home country is not necessary? Like maybe if they have lived in Canada for a certain period of time? He's been here since 2018.