OttawaAmid an exodus that included mayoral runner-up and party namesake Mario Aubé, Équipe Mario Aubé has rebranded as Gatineau Ensemble.Gatineau Ensemble shrinks to 4 of 20 seats around council tableCBC News · Posted: Nov 24, 2025 12:41 PM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 1 minuteThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Gatineau’s Équipe Mario Aubé political party has been rebranded as Gatineau Ensemble, or Gatineau Together in English. (Radio-Canada)Amid an exodus that included mayoral runner-up and party namesake Mario Aubé, Équipe Mario Aubé has rebranded as Gatineau Ensemble.The party Aubé founded earlier this year earned seven of Gatineau’s 11 city council seats in an election earlier this month, while Aubé finished a close second to Action Gatineau’s Maude-Marquis Bissonnette in the race for mayor.The team started bleeding members last week, losing councillors Marc Carrière, Michael Korhonen and on Monday, Jean Lessard. They are now sitting as Independents.Aubé himself stepped down as leader on Friday. The leadership of Gatineau Ensemble now includes Lac-Beauchamp Coun. Timmy Jutras, along with runner-up candidates Rachel Cousineau and Guillaume Gaboury.The party is keeping its logo of two hands clasped around a capital G.”We’ve changed our party name but we haven’t changed the platform on which we were elected,” said Jutras in French on Monday, singling out responsible budgets, basic infrastructure and a close connection with residents.The party said it’s planning a general meeting early next year and hopes to have a leader around the end of 2026.With files from Radio-Canada’s Maxence Bahaban and Patrick Foucault
Its namesake gone, Équipe Mario Aubé rebrands
