Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig whc.ca. NS
Answer
whc.ca. 5 NS nancy.ns.cloudflare.com.
whc.ca. 5 NS coleman.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0