Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig bradan.ca. NS
Answer
bradan.ca. 4 NS ns2.bradan.ca.
bradan.ca. 4 NS ns3.bradan.ca.
bradan.ca. 4 NS ns1.bradan.ca.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.bradan.ca. 4 A 23.154.81.73
ns2.bradan.ca. 4 A 104.224.53.15
ns3.bradan.ca. 4 A 104.36.84.64
ns1.bradan.ca. 4 AAAA 2602:fed2:fb0:6b:0:0:0:1
ns2.bradan.ca. 4 AAAA 2602:fe69:291:0:0:0:0:1
ns3.bradan.ca. 4 AAAA 2606:a8c0:3:9e:0:0:0:a
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0