Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig uqam.ca. NS
Answer
uqam.ca. 5 NS ns1.uqam.ca.
uqam.ca. 5 NS ns4.uqam.ca.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.uqam.ca. 5 A 132.208.250.5
ns4.uqam.ca. 5 A 132.208.148.254
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0