As Mr. Champagne said, we have the Quebec Press Council as well. We have not talked about it before. So, if you wanted, you could make government assistance conditional on membership in the Quebec Press Council. That would be quite an easy way to guarantee some kind of independence.
However, I do not think that it would be useful to have a professional body. The quality of the journalism is determined by the readers. Do the people read and interact with the journalism? The relationship between readers and journalism is a unique one. For the entire history of journalism, there have always been official media and alternative media, people who want a closer relationship with the community. There has also even been literary journalism, meaning authors writing books of a journalistic nature. Journalism can also be a literary technique that authors can borrow.
Creating a professional body serves no purpose. We already have the press council and it would be quite possible to make any government assistance conditional on membership in the council. All questions about pseudocontamination and all debates would be settled if we did something like that.