Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig cchifirm.ca. NS
Answer
cchifirm.ca. 5 NS ns04.gcd-dns.com.
cchifirm.ca. 5 NS ns03.gcd-dns.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0