We feel that it is not a good idea.
You are right that we hear a lot about a professional body, but we do not hear about the problems that there would be to establish it.
First, a professional body becomes a media licence. From the outset, that creates a problem vis-à-vis charters of rights and freedoms, because it establishes who has permission to function in the media.
A professional body also formalizes relationships between professionals and clients or patients. That's not what journalists do. There is no individual relationship with the public; the relationship is collective. That's a difficulty too.
We feel that another difficulty is deciding who gets a card, who can become a member. In this new generation, a lot of journalists have studied journalism. But there are also a lot, like myself and my colleagues, who have studied physics, chemistry, history. Including it all can become very difficult.