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My father's Canada visa was rejected in 2009 due to damaged passport, the lamination of his passport had peeled off a bit, that time we could submit application for reconsideration to Canadian embassy, we did that and they still denied. Embassies are very careful about damaged passports and can reject visa on that basis.
We applied for Canada visitor visa later in 2014, got the visa, did not face any problems.