Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mohawk.ca. NS
Answer
mohawk.ca. 3 NS ans2.continent8.net.
mohawk.ca. 3 NS ans1.continent8.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ans1.continent8.com. 3 A 78.24.214.1
ans2.continent8.net. 3 A 67.211.96.1
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0