Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig globetrotter.qc.ca. NS
Answer
globetrotter.qc.ca. 4 NS dns13.telus.com.
globetrotter.qc.ca. 4 NS dns13.telus.ca.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0