The Division accepts your claim if you fit the refugee or person in need of protection definition, and rejects it if you do not. If it rejects you and finds there was no credible or trustworthy evidence at all that could have supported you, it has to write that the claim has no credible basis, a label that costs you later.
(1)The Refugee Protection Division shall accept a claim for refugee protection if it determines that the claimant is a Convention refugee or person in need of protection, and shall otherwise reject the claim.
(2)If the Refugee Protection Division is of the opinion, in rejecting a claim, that there was no credible or trustworthy evidence on which it could have made a favourable decision, it shall state in its reasons for the decision that there is no credible basis for the claim.
107.1 If the Refugee Protection Division rejects a claim for refugee protection, it must state in its reasons for the decision that the claim is manifestly unfounded if it is of the opinion that the claim is clearly fraudulent.