<p>If that 3 years is up to now, then I guess it counts (i.e. you were residing in Quebec for the last 12 months without being a student). If your parents’ main residence is in Quebec, that works as well. But if you were not born and do not currently reside in Quebec, even if you may have lived there in the past, you won’t qualify as a Quebec resident (though as a Canadian citizen, you’ll get out of province tuition rather than international tuition, again, birth certificate required, they’re really anal about that).</p>