Doh! I should have known better than to trust the Americans and especially their intelligence.
I thought that the price in Euros sounded seriously wrong, so I tried to look it up and confirm it was in Euros. One source that I have in my quick reference file is the CIA World Handbook. While I don't trust the political analysis provided for the countries, the basic facts are usually right. It seems this time they're not. From the Finland entry
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/fi.html
Currency:
euro (EUR)
note: on 1 January 1999, the European Monetary Union introduced the euro as a common currency to be used by financial institutions of member countries; on 1 January 2002, the euro became the sole currency for everyday transactions within the member countries
Currency code:
EUR
Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 1.06 (2002), 1.12 (2001), 1.09 (2000), 0.94 (1999)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
And then went I went to the Bank of Canada looking for the exchange rates, I even checked to see if there was a Finnish krone/dollar/whatever and it didn't list anything. It did list a Danish and a Swedish krone, but I figured that Finland wouldn't use another country's currency.
I should have gone directly to DFAIT's analysis (Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade) but those briefings are a lot longer and I didn't feel like digging through them to confirm a simple fact. Idiot.
--Toronto