geardoor,
Sorry about the confusion. Air Canada uses 2 terms :surplus and furlough. Surplus means you are on the list to get layed off but you are still on line flying.Furloughed means you are phisically off the property.Initially the 317 number is the number of Surplus.Of that number only about the 160 you aRE referring to got the axe.
The remaining surplus pilots were returned to active status,in other words those planned layoffs were cancelled as the situation here improved.
Of the 160 or so that are on the street ,55 are supposed to start being brought back in sometime in the new year wich will leave around 100 mainline pilots still unemployed.
These numbers are for the mainline and I have no idea what they are at Jazz.
I know it's confusing but I hope this helps.