It would be the Immigration and Refugee Board that would make that determination, not CIC per se. As I mentioned earlier, there have been about 600 applications in the last couple of years that the IRB has received where there have been forced marriages as a basis for the claim. On spousal abuse, I don't have the numbers.
To be a refugee you have to look at the refugee definition, which is in terms of whether you would meet that or not. It might determine whether or not there is adequate protection in the country which you are from to deal with that sort of situation. That would certainly be a major factor.