Usually not. Canadians are ordinarily admitted as visitors for a period the officer sets and may return seasonally, provided the pattern is genuinely visiting. Residence answers a different question.
Decide what problem you are solving
Seasonal visiting is a long-established pattern and does not by itself require any immigrant status. What visiting does not permit is work, whether for an American employer or remotely for a Canadian one while present in the United States, and it does not guarantee admission, because each entry is decided by an officer who may ask about ties to Canada and the purpose of the trip. Couples whose absences from Canada grow longer each year sometimes discover that their pattern now looks like residence to one government and non-residence to another, which is a tax and health-coverage question before it is an immigration one. If the actual want is certainty and length, it is worth pricing residence honestly, including its obligations, rather than treating it as an upgraded visitor status.
Hypothetical example: a university researcher on sabbatical wants to spend a year in the United States while continuing a Canadian appointment. A first review produces a purpose-of-stay memo, a work-location plan and an admissibility history. Those records show whether a permanent-residence programme addresses the real need or whether the person is seeking a temporary academic arrangement. Gold Card eligibility still requires lawful-permanent-residence eligibility, admissibility and visa availability; the payment does not replace those conditions. The applicant must decide before paying whether the intended use truly warrants permanent residence and its tax and residency consequences.