Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig stargate.ca. NS
Answer
stargate.ca. 4 NS ns2.starcon.com.
stargate.ca. 4 NS ns1.starcon.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.starcon.com. 4 A 64.253.158.58
ns2.starcon.com. 4 A 98.143.88.8
ns1.starcon.com. 4 AAAA 2607:4100:ffff:2000:0:0:0:2
ns2.starcon.com. 4 AAAA 2607:4100:ffff:3000:0:0:0:3
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0